Copper is the organic answer to downy mildew and an EU candidate for substitution. Why the phase-out keeps slipping, and what stays in the soil.

Vermentino, Pigato and Vermentinu share one genome. Granite in Gallura, Ligurian terraces and Corsican schist make three wines.

The second-cheapest bottle, the decoy near the top, the missing dollar sign — how a restaurant’s wine list is designed to decide what you drink.

Lanzarote’s La Geria now pays growers by the depth of their vine pits. It may be Europe’s only wine subsidy priced by the shovel.

The EU now pays growers to grub up vineyards — and forbids replanting for a decade. Regulation 2026/471 builds a lock, twice.

Fining agents like egg white, casein, and isinglass are designed to leave — but new EU rules force the residues onto the label, giving vegan wine a nudge no activist lobbied for.

Fifty years after the Judgment of Paris, an American rematch redrew the map: Oregon took the Chardonnay, Mendocino argued with Saumur, and France quietly reclaimed the Cabernet.

PIWI grapes cross vinifera with wild American and Asian vines to carry the resistance vinifera never had. The German Wine Institute puts the payoff plainly: plant-protection measures cut by up to 80 percent.

Nearly every “wine as an asset class” pitch runs on the Liv-ex Fine Wine 1000. Look at how the index is built — 82% Bordeaux and Burgundy — and the phrase begins to narrow.

Every young wine region needs a founding story, and England’s is unusually good. The chalk hills of Champagne, the telling…