From Bordeaux Downsizing to Glyphosate Debates: Shifting Paradigms in Viticulture
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A Crisis averted, Barolo in Bordeaux, and a new AOP
With Europe on the brink of war, it feels strange to write about news from the wine. Still, the show must go on and it
Spiked Champagne, European Prohibition and do PDOs equal Quality?
Image courtesy of Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/99405169/) Travelling back from the motherland, I had plenty of time to catch up on some wine news today
Assessing the Health Risks of Drinking Wine
It has been a somewhat slow week in the wine world in terms of news. Well, while there were quite a few new stories and
Label Laws, Dry January and St Emilion in Disarray
The beginning of a New Year always comes with plenty of resolution and marks the coming into force of new laws – among other things.
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
The End of Master Sommeliers, Fraudulent Burgundy and Ireland’s Loi Evin
It had been in the making for some time. Still, when the news broke that six Master Sommeliers had been stripped of their title, it
The Million Dollar Wine, Sweet Alsace and Chinese Imports
An answer to what wine would have bought you a million bucks if you had one to spare, news from France’s north-east, the latest stats
Change in Champagne, Brexit Blues and Cork Bounces Back
A time of change, a time of stress, but also a time of opportunities. That’s in a nutshell the times we seem to be living
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