Sep 25, 2026
•
2 min read
Plus: eight growers, thirty-eight hectares, and a French AOC that made no wine.
Sep 17, 2026
The EU wrote the same ten-year replanting ban into two regulations, on purpose.
Sep 10, 2026
France's 2026 harvest lands at 33.9 million hectoliters; Champagne is down 48%.
Sep 3, 2026
Fifty years after the Judgment of Paris, the American rematch went to Willamette and Mendocino.
Aug 27, 2026
How fungus-resistant crosses cut vineyard spraying by up to 80 percent, and what Champagne now permits.
Aug 20, 2026
Plus $820,000 of California growers’ own money, and 90% of a Novarese crop gone.
Aug 13, 2026
Essex has overtaken Hampshire on plantings, and much of it isn't chalk at all.
Aug 6, 2026
1 min read
Why pale rosé isn't better wine, plus a 112-winery Italian importer files Chapter 11.
Jul 30, 2026
Ethanol resets the burn receptor’s trigger from 108°F down to 93°F.
Jul 23, 2026
Australia's grape crush just hit a 25-year low, yet prices still fell 6 percent.
Jul 16, 2026
A bottle to Düsseldorf crosses no tariff line. One to Chicago now pays 15 percent.
Jul 9, 2026
From Avize to the Côte des Bar, growers are bottling Champagne one plot at a time.
Jul 2, 2026
How a few seconds of stirring per barrel decides whether your Chardonnay tastes creamy.
Jun 25, 2026
How a region a fifteenth of Burgundy's size landed on every serious wine list.
Jun 18, 2026
How a glass of vermouth in 1786 Turin became the most overlooked line on the wine list.
Jun 11, 2026
How a 1974 sachet of dried yeast turned native fermentation from default into conviction.
Jun 4, 2026
Why California's three sustainability seals don't ban a single synthetic herbicide.
May 21, 2026
How a 2021 amendment in Jerez let Palomino speak for itself on albariza.
Apr 30, 2026
What 28 robots in Bordeaux mean — and the wine that proves the point.
