Here’s what’s happening on the wine internet this week:
Drink This
🇫🇷 Five newcomers to know in Bordeaux.
🧀 What to pair with cheese.
🤩 The wines that get Quince somm Adam Chhibbane really excited.
🇳🇿 Wine-Searcher on this year’s best wines from New Zealand.
The Business
🇬🇪 Georgia winemakers face crossroads: Russia or the U.S.?
🏥 Hospices de Beaune auction raises nearly $15 million.
🏆 One bright spot in the wine business: Burgundy.
😟 It’s not just tariffs: other proposed policies also worry the U.S. wine industry.
🤔 Can a very old vine help California winemakers battle climate change?
Get Out There
🇮🇹 A guide to a lovely and much-overlooked Italian wine region.
🍷 The best way to visit Napa Valley.
🇸🇬 The best new wine bars in Singapore.
😎 And L.A.’s coolest sushi bar/wine bar is in . . . a supermarket?
🇮🇨 “Lanza-grotty” has really leveled up.
🇲🇽 Valle de Guadelupe is magical. Get there before everyone else realizes it.
Boooo
⛈️ Massive storms swamp Sonoma County.
😯 Denzel forsakes his 10,000 bottle cellar. “I was popping $4,000 bottles just because that’s what was left.”
🪧 French cognac workers strike after liquor companies announce plan to send bulk cognac to China to be bottled there . . .
😡 . . . and French winegrowers block and hijack trucks carrying Spanish wine into the country, as protests continue over pricing issues.
😑 On living in sober-ish times: “One obvious problem with this new responsible, upstanding mode of socializing is that it shortens parties.”
Woooo!
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🏀 Carmelo Anthony’s first love was Bordeaux. Now he’s making To Kalon blends and Chateauneuf-du-Pape.
👍 Major international body (finally) standardizes definition of “old vines.”
🙌 Indigenous winemakers in the U.S. are making their mark.
🎙️ Ariana Grande: Barolo nerd?
Not Wine
🏅 One of Pappy’s biggest allocations drops on Black Friday. Here’s how to enter that lottery. (Hope you live in Kentucky.)
🍎 The 50 best bars in New York City.
🦀 Brewery wines competition—and a newly discovered crustacean is named after it.
🍅 Yeah um no. (Paywall – Fortune)
🥃 Extinct rye seeds were found among the cargo of recently-discovered 19th century shipwreck; scientists now seek to make whiskey from the resurrected grain.
The Opinion Page
🥳 In praise of the party bottle.
💩 Why natural wine importers and retailers are forbidding their employees to use the term “funky.”
🤷 “I confess that I don’t understand this level of anger about wine.”
🤔 A suggested solution to California’s bulk wine issues.
😆 “I considered taking on the corruption. Then I realized that would be hard.”
