My weekend wine news roundup:
🍷 Bordeaux "got lazy" due to Parker;
🍷 Bureaucracy halts no-alcohol wine in Italy;
🍷 Castel launches own Champagne;
🍷 Madiran launches new wine style 'Bleu Tannat';
🍷 New papal cuvée in Jurançon.
And more: www.wine-searcher.com/m/2026/04/bo...
Bordeaux 2025 En Primeur prices "will be competitive" insists Union des Grands Crus boss François-Xavier Maroteaux as the region's wine futures campaign gets under way... www.wine-searcher.com/m/2026/04/en...
My latest Sunday wine news roundup:
🍷 Torres in debt restructure talks;
🍷 Champagne frost damage revised upwards;
🍷 Rémy Cointreau announces reorganization;
🍷 Argentina wine crisis deepens; and
🍷 Barrel hire firm goes under
www.wine-searcher.com/m/2026/04/sp...
This week's wine news roundup:
🍷Iran conflict hits wine bottle prices;
🍷One Battle After Another wine makes the Spanish press;
🍷Spanish winemaker slams government on Iran;
🍷EU approves Tokaji changes; and
🍷NTM's Joey Starr on rum.
and Snoop's 2Pac cuvée...
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It's not generational shift, it's not health, it's not loneliness. People just don't have enough money for wine...
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Absolutely!
The week in wine news:
🍷 Piedmont in crisis;
🍷 Swiss viticulture under threat;
🍷 Chilean wines pulled from Japan;
🍷 Montpeyroux gets appellation status;
🍷 More glassmaker closures; and...
🍷 Protests in Cognac.
All the wine headlines you missed in the last week: www.wine-searcher.com/m/2026/02/pi...
Sparkling Shiraz, mate. Great wine.
I think it's more that anyone in the Rhône (and in specifically red-wine-only zones) will soon have the option to branch into sparkling wine and do so under a "pan-Rhône" brand.
The week's wine news: Rhône moves into sparkling; wine shortfall in 5 years; Tony Paker unveils Champagne; Alcohol linked to lead contamination; French wines face tariffs from China; Chile wines courting the Russian market; Chihuahua to bid for PGI status...
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Oh wow - I did not know this.
Winegrowing is being used as a tool of colonization in the West Bank, with wines made from grapes grown on land seized by Israeli settlers finding its way – often through deception – onto the shelves of wine stores in Europe and the US... www.wine-searcher.com/m/2026/02/th...
"I had two days of coughing up blood but I'm fine now." My piece on the Victoria bushfires and their impact on local wineries. www.wine-searcher.com/m/2026/01/wi...
My #winenews this week: Spanish wine critic tries to school superstar #Rosalía on pronunciation; top Bordeaux vineyard prices now on downturn; Abruzzo subregion gets DOCG title; Spain leads bulk wine market; and more on Argentina's huge deregulation push www.wine-searcher.com/m/2025/11/cr...
The #winenews headlines you missed: France forces Cognac distillers to pay duty on stolen spirit; Chapoutier plants agave for Tequila production; Deregulation of Argentina's winemaking a "health risk" says expert; Alsace celebrates "excellent" 2025; and more... www.wine-searcher.com/m/2025/11/co...
My roundup of the wine headlines you missed: Phytoplasma threatens Hungary vineyards; Bordeaux Cru's no-alc wine; Break-in at Ducru-Beaucaillou; Vandalism in Bordeaux; Yquem owner's wines at auction; Non-alc wine talks stall; and leafhopper found in Bordeaux www.wine-searcher.com/m/2025/10/hu...
It's also just wrong
My latest wine news roundup: 2025 set to be great for Barolo; Beaujolais winemaker gets jail for death; Kenyan archbishops take control of altar wine; Wine tanks emptied in Bordeaux; Russia to host BRIC wine forum; and Argentinian winemakers sound the alarm.
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Haha - that was my fault, not his! We talked about Turkish wines - both good and bad - but I didn't have space for it to go on there. So blame me - I'm very sorry we couldn't reproduce the whole interview!
Isn't it just! At least there was the Shiraz and Schubert at the end there...
My roundup of the wine headlines you might have missed last week: Chapoutier intern dies; Cannabis found in barrel shipment in Bordeaux; Burgundy winegrower assaults mayor; Major Cognac vine-pull plan announced; and Orchestra pairs wine with music. www.wine-searcher.com/m/2025/10/ca...
This week's wine news headlines:
🍷 French winegrower releases Palestine cuvée;
🍷 CAV empties wine tanks in Languedoc;
🍷 Oscar-winner Jean Dujardin launches Bordeaux whiskey;
🍷 New Vino de Pago for Tharsys; and
🍷 Wine "not incompatible with sport" says Olympian. www.wine-searcher.com/m/2025/10/wi...
He has done a bunch of Swiss wines lately!
Doesn't it just
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Finally managed to chat to the wonderful Emre Rende of Château Garbage... www.wine-searcher.com/m/2025/10/ga...
My wine-news-you-missed last week:
🍷 Italian winemaker admits brutal homicide;
🍷 "CBD influencer" in Bordeaux court for extortion;
🍷 Wine crisis hits Asti;
🍷 Muscadet winegower dies in cellar, close call in Beaujolais;
🍷 Second winegower suicide in Bordeaux
www.wine-searcher.com/m/2025/09/it...
My weekly wine news roundup: Pallets of wine sent to Bordeaux prison; Argentina unveils new Geographical Indicator (GI); Brazil's Lula to serve açai wine at climate summit; Bordeaux producer acquitted of misleading consumers; and more www.wine-searcher.com/m/2025/09/fr...
"It will be the same serious nods as those made when Cheval Blanc and the like left the Saint-Émilion classification. The brand doesn't need the appellation. They might be right. But it is, to me, as an environmental conservative, still, actually, quite sad..." www.wine-searcher.com/m/2025/09/la...
The wine news stories you might have missed last week: Aude smoke taint "unprecedented"; Calvados producer says Trump tariffs hitting all; Conservatives asked to can Calimocho competition; Balearic vineyards to expand; and wine thief gets stuck up chimney...
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