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.

This Sommelier Is Accelerating Careers and Creating Community for Wine Professionals of Color
Nice profile of Alicia!

The City of Love’s New Wine Affair
Will Paris one day again rival Vienna in terms of urban vineyards?

How can the wine industry tackle ‘systemic’ problems of the labour exploitation?
Good questions to be asking.

The Rise of the White Dragon
Jim reports from inside the dragon.

How Provence is dealing with drought
Same way everyone else is. Innovating.

How this California winery went from booming business to ‘collateral damage’
One word: debt.

‘The younger generation doesn’t think along appellation lines’
This is good news.

A new California winery will change your mind about Chardonnay
OK, but do they make wine in glass globes?!?

Château de Beaucastel’s new £15mn ‘wine chapel’
First look at the new estate.

Why France is switching from red to white wine
Not just China.

Tackling Wine’s Sexual Violence Problem
Still so much work to do.

Meet the Asian-Blasian Winemaking Duo Shaking Up Tradition in Wine Country’s Backyard
It was a meet cute.