Hello and welcome to my weekly roundup of the wine stories that I find of interest on the web. I spend each week exploring the internet for everything published about wine online, and here’s all the stuff that I think would be worth your valuable time.
Masked robbers steal wine worth over $5m from top Italian vineyard
Biggest wine theft ever, say some folks. The Marchese isn’t pleased. As an aside, do you know how hard it is to steal 30,000 wine bottles?!?
Turning the Tables on Matt Kettmann
Profile of the man from Santa Barbara.
Affordable Luxury
OK, but should we even be using the “L” word for wine?
Time to Get Real
Real talk from Ted Hall. A clear-eyed post.
What if Your Neighbour Was Your Occasional Wine Merchant?
Peer-to-peer wine sales has been tried before.
Can revamping a 45-year-old winery draw visitors to a wine region in the South Bay’s ‘backyard’?
Fogarty is making better wines than it ever has.
French wine industry facing historic low harvest after extreme summer heat
Less wine everywhere, but that might be a good thing.
The one crucial thing that would make Gen Z buy fine wine
Not really answered here.
Why Is California Wine’s Correction Worsening?
Because it’s built on debt.
French v NZ – the results of a blind wine tasting might surprise you
The latest blind tasting stunt.
Mexico Moves to Certify Wine Origin as Production Grows
Such moves are almost always good for consumers.
Wine talk: All’s well that ends well
A new map of Israeli wine regions.
My favorite hidden gem in California has incredible food and wine — and it’s more affordable than Napa Valley
An ode to Paso Robles.
This Bordeaux-Style Wine Tells the Story of a Sicilian Legend
Fancy, but does the world need another expensive Cabernet-based blend?
Brazilians Reach Record Per Capita Wine Consumption
But California doesn’t give it much focus at all. That should change.
People Still Want Wine at Their Gatherings—but Gathering Is the Challenge
It’s the phones. Put down the phones.
Short Crop Won’t Be Wine’s Savior
There is no silver bullet in a market correction.
Searching for weaker wines
Not that kind of weak. Less than 13% weak.
