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.
The Pour-igin of Species
This is an incredibly well-done data exploration and use of AI.
Assessing Franciacorta and the future for ‘Italy’s answer to Champagne’
Good stuff! But getting pricey.
Planeta’s Latest Dare
Mixing things up in Menfi.
The New Prohibitionists Are Hijacking Federal Dietary Guidelines
The word is getting out beyond the wine industry.
Is price holding back organic wine?
I don’t agree. Everyone knows you pay more for organic.
How an American businessman lost his job and found himself in an old French vineyard
Winemaker and now author.
Why Chinese Food Doesn’t Care About Your Wine Rules
Wine rules are stupid.
Santorini’s Wine Industry Faces Crisis: Production Could Vanish by 2042
Climate change is coming for the island.
Andrew Jefford: ‘Listen to the best teacher in the world: nature’
Andrew talks with Barolo producer Enrico Rivetto
AI may help Napa wineries adapt to ‘climate chaos’
If only the wine industry wasn’t 8 years behind the tech curve.
Traces of ‘forever chemical’ found in European wines, new study reveals
Not time to panic, but definitely concerning.
This wine’s wild popularity is baffling Bay Area restaurant owners
First it was Sancerre, now chilled reds?
Overwhelmed in the Wine Aisle? Follow This Advice.
Eric Asimov highlights wine grapes you might not have tried.
Oregon wine entrepreneur Bill Stoller dies at 74
RIP for a real pioneer.
Two California wine companies are locked in a legal battle over a French word
The chronicle weighs in on the “Negociations.”
China’s Non-Alcoholic Wine Booms Is All Business
25.4% YOY growth is big.
Mike Waller on Josh Jensen & the quality of Calera’s Californian wines
An interview.
Paris cafés caught cheating tourists with cheap wine
Ruh roh.
Chinese owners offload Bordeaux estates as demand slumps
Fair-weather estates, eh?
