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Plus mining company buying vineyard land in Australia and Champagne’s CO 2 emission goals raised. Above, red lines show major flooding across western France in February. Before I get to...
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Plus harvest updates from Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, Rioja, Chianti and Piemonte. Above, Plēb Urban Winery was destroyed by Hurricane Helene...
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Also, a new crop of Taylor’s Port Golden Vines Diversity Scholars. Above, clockwise from top left: Kanchan Schindlauer, Emiliano Stratico...
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Plus, a potential change to the laws governing Germany’s VDP estates to help them weather the fallout of spring’s devastating...
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Excellent traditional-method fizz from a producer spared the devastation of Serra Gaúcha earlier this year but fully committed to helping...
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Extreme weather in Europe, the US Federal Government’s impending update to dietary guidelines, James Millton’s conviction for smuggling vine cuttings...
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Devastating flooding continues to impact Brazil (see the destruction on the Speranza property in Bento Gonçalves shown above) and Australia’s...
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The warming climate continues to wreak havoc on wine regions around the world, as evidenced by the photo above of...
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2 November 2023 Today we’re republishing this report on the devastating floods in Chile to draw your attention to a...
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Dubbed a once-in-a-200-year event, extreme flooding in the Western Cape wrought destruction across some of its wine regions. Malu Lambert...
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Floods and drought collide in eastern Australia.
The last time the cellars flooded at Mitchelton was 1974, just after the...
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Spare a thought for Arnica Rowan, who has written so often for us, most recently this account of Canadian Thanksgiving...
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29 July 2021 As the terrible flood devastation in the Ahr Valley remains at the front of our minds, we...
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Michael, who has also filed the third part of his survey of 2020 Mosels today, reports from the centre of...
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