Hello and welcome to my weekly roundup of the wine stories that I find of interest on the web. I post them to my magazine on Flipboard, but for those of you who aren’t Flipboard-inclined, here’s everything I’ve strained out of the wine-related muck for the week.

Sommeliers Are Using Their Wine Menus to Rally for Greener Drinking Practices
Wine list as advocacy is the right thing to do.

The Tyranny of the Algorithmic Palate
Some more thoughts on all those apps.

Devil’s Advocate: Fine – and General – Wine Downturn May Not Be Cyclical
Some hard truth.

Should Rioja increase its focus on white wine?
Only if it wants to remain relevant.

Rethinking Wine’s Red Blends
Evolution happens.

‘Organic is a rising category in a declining market’
Values are changing.

US wine bodies lobby Congress for answers
Good. Keep it up.

Still Life With Wine
Your Insta feed is part of a grand tradition.

Katherine Cole: ‘The surest way to ensure wine’s demise is to politicise it’
Tongue firmly in cheek here.

Russians lure European diplomats into malware trap with wine-tasting invite
Vintage phishing, they’re calling it.

Interview: Elaine Chukan Brown on new book The Wines of California
An interview about California wine.

Suspected wine theft ring busted in Santa Clara County
Lock them up!

Wine in history: The world’s oldest wine
With bits of us in it.

A Napa winery is America’s first to make this style of Japanese wine
California Koshu.

Tariffs make sour grapes for American winemakers
Wine gets the Planet Money treatment.

This Oregon White Wine Has A Cult Following—And It’s About To Go Big
Go salty or go home.

OIV: Global Wine Consumption Hits Historic Low — How Is Asia Faring?
China way down, Japan just a bit.

Martin Ray Winery Sues Cameron Hughes for Trademark Infringement
What’s a little Negociant between friends?

Everything You Need to Know About the Rhône, the Underrated Region Wine Insiders Love
A Robb Report primer.

How Robert Sinskey Vineyards is a fine mix of Old and New World
Two gems and their winery.

Why you’ll love Europe’s oldest wine region — with new direct flights
Direct from the UK, that is.

Why You Should Be Stocking up on 2018 Champagne
Tasty stuff, say the Robb Report guys.

Champagne’s Heavy-handed Herbicide Habit
It’s pretty brutal if you haven’t seen it before.

A new style of wine tasting room is popping up all over the Bay Area
The “collective” comes of age.