Brown-Forman announced today that it is investing $100,000 in TURF – Tailgaters Urging Responsibility & Fun – as the football season begins in earnest this week.

The 2008 Croquet Invitational and Charity Auction, a benefit for the Greater Bay Area Make-A-Wish Foundation®, welcomed a near capacity crowd to experience wine country’s best food, wine and croquet at Sonoma-Cutrer Vineyards in Windsor.

Dr. Ann Thrupp, who leads Fetzer Vineyards sustainability and environmental efforts, has been appointed to the National Research Council’s Committee on 21st Century Systems Agriculture.

Mark Roberts wants his business, CityScoot LLC, to make more money, sure.

But he also wants it to be "the most successful drunk-driving deterrent in history," a cause celebre for boozers everywhere -- and for anyone on the road, if those boozers climb behind the wheel of a vehicle after a night of over-imbibing.

Fetzer Vineyards pioneering leadership in sustainable environmental practices has been recognized by the United States Environmental Protection Agency with the award of a 2007 Best-of-the-Best Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award

2007-01-24 Paris Corporate Responsibility Award Recognizes Sustainable Practices And Social Responsibility Fetzer Vineyards has been named a 2007 Brand With A Conscience by the Medinge Group [ www.medinge.org ], an international think-tank focusing on branding and business.  The award was presented

Fetzer Vineyards will place the wine industry's largest solar array atop its winery bottling facility in Hopland, generating 1.1 million kilowatt hours of clean electricity annually, enough to offset more than 960,000 pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the equivalent of taking approximately 80 cars off the road for a year or planting 130 acres of trees.

It's time to start the music up in New Orleans and we need your help!

Fetzer Vineyards will announce today it will become the largest solar energy vineyard in the nation.