Folly Enterprises News Today

On November 16, 2023, Deirdre Mahlan, The Duckhorn Portfolio’s Interim President and CEO, announced the company’s agreement to acquire Sonoma-Cutrer Vineyards.

On October 30, 2023, Treasury Wine Estates, the company which also owns Penfolds and Beringer, announced the acquisition of California’s Daou Vineyards.

The Women of the Vine & Spirits Foundation, a non-profit led by President Deborah Brenner, has awarded scholarships to 76 candidates this year.

Ruffino has appointed Olga Fusari as winemaker, overseeing the Super Tuscan blends produced at their Poggio Casciano estate near Florence .

Ana María Cumsille will start as winemaker for Viña Carmen, the Chilean winery established in 1850 in the Andean foothills town of Alto Jahuel.

For the last eight years, Mt. Folly Farm has set out to build a foundation of natural farming practices from the animals they raise to the products that make it to stores.

On September 6, 2023, the Court of Master Sommeliers, Americas, announced its two newest members: Jonathan Eichholz and Mark Guillaudeu.

The Institute of Masters of Wine welcomes Erin Jolley from the US and Andrea Lonardi from Italy as its newest Masters of Wine.

Molson Coors, the beer company that produces Coors, Miller, Blue Moon and Leinenkugel, acquired Blue Run, a whiskey company in Georgetown, Kentucky.

Brian Rudin is the new Winemaker and General Manager at Echolands, a winery on the Oregon side of the Walla Walla Valley AVA.