The TERROIR Letter

Story-driven wine journalism - regions, vintages, and the business behind what's in your glass. Weekly, from TERROIR Journal.

Sep 25, 2026

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Plus: eight growers, thirty-eight hectares, and a French AOC that made no wine.

Sep 17, 2026

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The EU wrote the same ten-year replanting ban into two regulations, on purpose.

Sep 10, 2026

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France's 2026 harvest lands at 33.9 million hectoliters; Champagne is down 48%.

Sep 3, 2026

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Fifty years after the Judgment of Paris, the American rematch went to Willamette and Mendocino.

Aug 27, 2026

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How fungus-resistant crosses cut vineyard spraying by up to 80 percent, and what Champagne now permits.

Aug 20, 2026

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Plus $820,000 of California growers’ own money, and 90% of a Novarese crop gone.