Hello and welcome to my weekly roundup of the wine stories that I find of interest on the web. I spend each week trolling the web for everything published about wine online, and here’s everything that I think would be worth your valuable time.

A Guide to Germany’s New Wine Classification System
A lot to wrap your head around.

How to Find Great Values in Wine
Sadly, paying a bit more seems to be the new answer.

Goodbye cork taint – hello, halo taint
23% of the time, it ain’t the cork.

She left Wine Country after her fiancé’s death. Now she owns the winery they dreamed of running
The twists and turns of Limerick Lane.

Bordeaux’s most secret wine: Enthusiasm for L’Enthousiaste
An interesting project.

Can this $380 bottle of Napa Cabernet erase the kosher wine stigma?
Not the first high-end Kosher wine from Napa.

What Microclimate Actually Means and How It Shapes Every Bottle of Wine
Smaller than you think.

Burgundy’s Most Famous Idea About Wine Is Now Taking Root in New York’s Finger Lakes
Terroir elsewhere.

US wine drinkers turn to value bottles as consumption softens
Caution, this is survey data.

Who’s Afraid of 100% American Wine?
Who indeed?

These Less-Crowded French Wine Regions Are Extraordinary With Storybook Scenery
Go east says Ray Isle.

Dom Pérignon cellar master: ‘blends have a sense of place too’
Of course they do.

Jamie Goode: Do wine experts taste better or simply differently?
Jamie on a wine industry conundrum.

Failed AI tractor company lays off all employees, abandons Bay Area headquarters
If only all the AI food and wine pairing apps would die as quickly.

When the same wine tastes different
All the time.

Dinner and No Drinks: Restaurants Are Struggling as Americans Drink Less
Ask not for whom the bell tolls.

The Reason Americans Have Stopped Drinking Out
Felicity Carter responds to the above article.