Hello and welcome to my weekly roundup of the wine stories that I find of interest on the web. I post them to my magazine on Flipboard, but for those of you who aren’t Flipboard-inclined, here’s everything I’ve strained out of the wine-related muck for the week.
5 Wine Industry Trends to Watch in 2025
I agree with all of these.
California Wineries Look to Grape Diversity
Planting for a different consumer.
There’s More to Wine Than Just a Cancer Warning
Amen.
What Have Wine Merchants Ever Done for Us?
Innovate or die.
Becoming Burgundy’s First Black Winemaker
An interview.
Is the writing on the wall for Australian Shiraz?
Reinvention required?
Wine’s Volatile Sulfur Debate
Don’t be weird about it.
Breaking Down Silos: A call for unity within wineries
Not so much a call for unity as much as collaboration and communication.
Restaurant Wine Lists Are Getting Much Shorter
Short lists are fun!
Why Wine Must Change
Robert Camuto offers an opinion.
Devil’s Advocate: What to Expect from 2025, and Why? Part One – Health
Robert Joseph prognosticates.
Why worker welfare is critical to truly “sustainable” wine production
Sustainability includes people.
Francis Ford Coppola’s Napa winery sues his ‘right-hand man’ for allegedly stealing wine tanks
More wine country drama.
Napa County says California winery owes $8 million after legal battle
Ouch.
There’s More to Wine than Just a Cancer Warning
Indeed.
Littorai Wines Puts Farming First in Sebastopol
Nice profile.
Rare wine ‘powerhouse’ created by California acquisition
The folks dealing with the expensive stuff.
Collio DOC to integrate orange wine into production specifications
Progress in wine laws? Amazing.
Putin Gets a Snub in the Vast Wine Cellars of a Former Soviet Republic
If only we could put HIM in a dark corner somewhere.
Meet the Winemakers Reviving Malbec—in France
Sure, but plenty of people were doing it before Hobbs and Rolland got there.
Meet the Napa Valley Vineyard That Grows Some of the Region’s Best Grapes
The story of Vine Hill Ranch.
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