60 to 90 millimeters of rain fell on Bordeaux in the last week of August 2025, rewriting a vintage critics had already written off. The wines came out saline and chalky — what Cheval Blanc’s Pierre-Olivier Clouet called “2010 without the alcohol.” James Suckling places the best 2025s at the level of 2019 and 2016. The May–June 2026 campaign that releases them is the one that decides whether En Primeur survives 2024’s collapse.
Wine Industry
From autonomous robots in Cognac to AI-driven fermentation in Napa, precision technology is arriving in the vineyard faster than most producers anticipated. The question is what it changes — and whom it leaves behind.
Regenerative viticulture is rewriting vineyard economics from the soil up. At Tablas Creek and across California, fewer clusters per vine are delivering higher profits, raising a question the industry cannot ignore.
The 2025 Burgundy harvest produced stunning whites and almost nothing to put them in. Allocations are tightening, cellars are thin, and the shelf is not refilling.
The American wine industry lost a winery a day in 2025. Behind the closures, a structural reckoning that may reshape the business for a generation.
Wine tells you less about its contents than orange juice. The EU now mandates full ingredient disclosure. The United States has not followed, and the gap is widening.
A 15% tariff compounds at every tier of distribution. TERROIR examines how wine tariffs are reshaping prices, consumer habits, and the wines themselves.
On a morning in early 1961, somebody at the Institut National des Appellations d’Origine opened a copy of Sud Ouest…
Turn a bottle of imported wine over and look at the back, just above the legally required Surgeon General warning.…