Douro pays growers not to harvest. The price is sour too
Portugal expects a larger harvest in the Douro, yet is paying growers to leave grapes on the vine. The problem is no longer production. It is demand.
Read moreTerroir exists. But what does it actually tell us?
Science keeps mapping why vineyards differ. Whether a drinker tastes that difference, prefers it or is willing to pay for it is another matter.
Read moreWhat terroir really costs: the OIVE figures behind the Spanish vineyard
From €1,640 to €12,997 per hectare: new OIVE figures reveal just how much production costs vary between Spanish wine regions.
Read moreOpen Wine Map: every European appellation on one interactive map
All the wine rules were already online, just scattered. Boris De Vloed brought them together on a single map of twenty European wine countries.
Read moreThe wine after the story
What Paglione of Lucera teaches us about wine, simplicity and the second bottle
Read moreMake it sweet, call it dry: why we secretly like sweetness
Why we say we like dry wine, while our palate often prefers something softer
Read moreMichelin hands out Grapes in Bordeaux. Château Latour is nowhere to be seen
Michelin assesses wine producers against five fixed criteria, yet its own Bordeaux profiles make it difficult to reconstruct how those criteria lead to ‘Selected’, one, two or three Grapes.
Read moreMâcon is changing the wine. But what does the consumer want?
Mâcon is relaxing its production rules in response to climate pressure, technical considerations and economic vulnerability. Producers are gaining more options. But will that also create more demand for wine from the Mâconnais?
Read moreBeaujolais almost vanished from the Dutch market
French customs data show a 96 percent collapse in direct exports to the Netherlands. Beaujolais Nouveau explains only part of it.
Read moreThe Michelin Grape gives wine buyers trust. But based on what?
Michelin calls the vineyard visit essential. One estate says it never happened.
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