The good news is that en primeur Bordeaux prices have been slashed by as much as 40%. The bad news is that the weather is not cooperating with winegrowers in France, Germany and Spain, and Türkiye’s wineries are facing crippling taxes …

Read the transcript of this podcast at https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/bordeaux-price-cuts-hail-frost-and-drought-damage-europe-turkiyes-threatening-taxes.

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Single-quinta vintage port announcements are a rare bright spot in a week of frost reports and new data on falling consumption, production and trade.

Read the transcript of this episode at https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/frosts-devastates-eu-vineyards-port-2022-releases-falling-wine-consumption.

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Which houses have made 2022 vintage port declarations? What is en primeur and what was Bordeaux's 2023 vintage like? How was the 2024 harvest in South Africa? And how has Vinea Wachau gone the extra mile in committing to sustainability?

Read the transcript of this episode at https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/vintage-port-declarations-bordeaux-en-primeur-austrias-wachau-certified-sustainable.

*Correction: The Fladgate Partnership sold Krohn to WineStone in October 2023.

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Tam is shortlisted for the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards’ Drink Writer of the year. There is a new global database for female winemakers, viticulturists, brewers and distillers. And wineries that use 100% British Columbia grown grapes are struggling to stay afloat.

Read the transcript of this episode at https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/women-wine-bc-challenges-fortnum-mason-shortlist.

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A new study suggests that local fungi perform better than fungicides when combatting grapevine trunk diseases; Chinon floods, Spain dries up, and Majestic acquires Vagabond.

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Canned wine's reduction issue, Patz & Hall and Truett-Hurst are, once again, privately held, and Beijing finally lifts tariffs on Australian wine.

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Neo-prohibitionist organizations are behind recent anti-alcohol policy at the WHO and California's largest wine companies are importing foreign bulk wine and selling it under American labels.

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The Mosel VDP approves Abtsberg vineyard as a Grosse Lage for Spätburgunder, China recommends lifting tariffs on Australian wine, Argentina lifts its proposed 8% export tax on wine, and more!

Read the transcript of this episode at https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/blue-nun-goes-french-mosel-pinot-noir-promotion-australia-tariff-relief.

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Germany's government submits an application in Brussels for the dealcoholization of organic wine to be approved under EU law, the Australian government forms a task force to propose solutions to Australia's wine glut, and Lidl sells bottles of Bordeaux at €1.89.

Read the transcript of this episode at https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/can-de-alcoholized-wine-be-organic-how-cheap-can-wine-get-and-australias-wine-glut.

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Canada's Minister of Agriculture, Lawrence MacAulay, announces a $177 million extension to the Wine Sector Support Program, winegrowers in Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux vote to leave the Union des Côtes de Bordeaux group, Spain gets a new DO, growers protest the négociant Castel Frères, and Portugal’s export market looks surprisingly decent.

Read the transcript of this episode at https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/new-spanish-do-grape-price-wars-canadian-winegrower-grants.

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