Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Susan Preston pours some Jim's Jug, the wine that Preston Farm makes specifically for jugs. (Erik Castro/For the S.F. Chronicle) ...

Well, this past Labor Day weekend, I was invited to a cookout and the kickoff to the fall college football season. Normally, I would bring a couple of bottles of wines that I had tried and know would ...

Martini & Prati Winery in Santa Rosa still sells wine on a fill-your- own-jug basis. Visitors to the Santa Rosa winery can buy an empty jug and have it filled directly from the tank. The traditional ...

In 2002, the Three Thieves didn't have a business plan. They didn't have a winery, and they didn't have grape contracts. All they had was an idea, which even they admit was a little crazy -- they ...

In most circles, the phrase "jug wine" connotes cheap swill. The archetype, Carlo Rossi, is what its $15-for-4-liters price tag would suggest: so sweet and lacking in acidity that it tastes like flat ...