Financial Cost of Climate Change, Barolo En Primeur and more If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans… everything had been organised and I was supposed to be of to another trip Read More »
Fake Bordeaux, Drought, and the Blockchain in the Wine Industry The weather keeps playing the main role, no matter what time of the year. We’ve already seen hail Frost and extensive rainfall, now it’s drought. Read More »
Bordeaux Futures, Vines in High Altitude, and Grasping an Opportunity If we are absolutely honest, the wine industry has seen better times and has a couple of nuts to crack if it wants to get Read More »
The Truth behind Wine Quality Assurance, Buying Local and Wine after Covid-19 It is difficult to describe how depressing this current crisis is. Even though it seems so far away, the war on Ucraine is an attack Read More »
The End is the Beginning is the End The first edition of our weekly round-up of the new year is sort of a final edition of 2021 as well: with the week overlapping Read More »
Common Agricultural Policies, Plan G and New Brexit Challenges Dealcoholisation of wine in part or entirely is one of the many aspects in the EU’s new Common Agricultural Policy you’ll read about in the Read More »
Controls, Fraud and Convictions plus Inflation hits Wine The weather is so nice where I am I thought I could risk it and take it a peg down with a couple of concerning Read More »
Risks in the Winery, Crowdfunding and Organic on the Rise Now that I’ve scrubbed my hands almost clean again after some harvest action, it is pouring down and we leave things to the able hands Read More »
Extreme Weather, California Exports and Presidential Orders There is a thread that runs through the various editions of this news summary’s and that’s climate change and the severe weather events it appears Read More »
The Albedo Effect and what it means for growing wine in times of climate change Shorter ripening periods and hotter harvest – how winegrowers can protect the crop and why artificial snow is not a solution to the problem. Read More »