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A New Wine Label Promotes Workers’ Rights

Hardly anyone in the natural wine world is talking about environmental justice for those who pick the grapes, labor advocates say. The Guardian Vital label aims to change that.

By Liza Gross

 A worker picks leaves from the conveyor belt of a harvester during grape harvest on a vineyard in Lodi, Calif., on Oct. 13, 2025. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images
The Glass Fire burns near the Jericho Canyon Vineyard and Winery about a mile out of downtown Calistoga, California, on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. Credit: Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images

Wildfire Smoke: An Emerging Threat to West Coast Wines

By Liza Gross
A severe hard freeze in California's Wine Country caused vineyard managers to launch frost protection measures to protect the budding grapevines on January 21, 2018 in Los Alamos, California. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

Ice-fighting Bacteria Could Help California Crops Survive Frost

By Liza Gross
Grapevines at a vineyard in Sonoma County, California, November 27, 2016. Sonoma County experienced an outbreak of Pierce's disease in 2014. Credit: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images

Warmer California Winters May Fuel Grapevine-Killing Pierce’s Disease

By Liza Gross

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