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📺Champagne Can Now Reach 15% Alcohol! Here’s Why – This Week Uncorked Episode 119
Champagne is reaching record alcohol levels of up to 15% as its market shows signs of recovery after years of decline, UK authorities arrest a man over a sus...
Crealis PE.DI Expands Its Range of Winemaking Tools with Topmix 2.0 and Top V
October 26, 2026 — With TOPMIX 2.0 and TOP V, CREALIS PE.DI completes its range of oenological crown caps designed for sparkling wines. These two new solutions reflect a shared [...]
Tommasi Named Winery of the Year by Gambero Rosso’s Vini D’italia 2027 Guide
The award comes on the eve of 2027, the year in which the Family celebrates 125 years since its founding and 30 years of the fourth generation at the helm. [...]
Welsh vineyard set to pioneer country’s first Charmat method wine
Welsh vineyard set to pioneer country’s first Charmat method wine
🎧Ep. 2820 Italianity for Me Is: Embracing the Roots We Once Hid with Anthony Giglio
He is Wine Director for the American Express Centurion Lounge network, a longtime contributing editor to Food & Wine, and the author of 11 books on wine, cocktails and travel, including Passport to Italian Wine, Cocktails in New York, and the annual Food &...
Napa Valley Is a Very Good Long Term Wine Investment and Will Lead the Recovery
Very few product can claim the same Iconic status as Napa Valley...this makes its wine a hedge and harbinger.
The wine industry doesn’t need another lecture. It needs a new generation of thinking.
I just read Gary Vaynerchuk's article The Wine Business Needs to Wake Up and after more than 30 years in the wine business, I think he makes some very good points. For too long, our industry has spent more time talking about what consumers should appreciate than...
Afternoon Brief, October 23
Wine Buyers Pledge to Drive Demand for Regenerative Wine: A coalition of eight international wine buyers, with combined sales of around 400 million bottles a year, has pledged to build demand for regeneratively farmed wine, aiming to give growers the confidence to...
