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.

Acid Freak
The dirty little secret that is no big deal.

This Wine Was the Toast of the World. Now Even the Locals Don’t Drink It.
Bore-deaux anyone?

As California’s Wine Industry Struggles, Some Lodi Grape Growers Pivot to New Crops
Gotta put food on the table.

Napa Investors Bucking the Trend
Doubling down on authenticity and philanthropy.

The Making of Champagne’s Most Elusive Prestige Cuvée
Shayna Clark on Salon.

Grapevine cultivation at Cetamura del Chianti: multiproxy evidence for centuries of continuity from the Etruscans to the Romans
A (very academic) paper demonstrating the early cloning of grapes.

Trump Threatens 100% Tariff on French Wine and Champagne, Macron Resists
Let’s hope TACO reigns.

The green, green vines of Ireland
Luck of the Irish?

This startup was supposed to revolutionize California’s wine industry: ‘It totally failed’
The dead butterfly.

The Struggle Facing English Wine
Too pricey for most Brits?

The future of wine depends on culture
Definitely agree with everything said here.

Wine’s problem isn’t storytelling – it’s relevance
Coming at the same question from a slightly different angle.

Alcohol drinking will shrink in the next decade, research finds
Tighten those belts.

Georgian Wine Is Caught Between Russia And The West
A delicate balance.

Austria cracks the Gen Z code
Worth paying attention to.

One-third of Napa and Sonoma wineries report lowering their tasting fees amid tourism declines
Good. They were too high.