Here’s what’s happening on the wine internet this week:
Drink This
🇺🇸 How to build a great cellar filled only with American wine. (Paywall – Bloomberg)
⭐ 2021: “Napa’s greatest vintage in decades.”
🇧🇹 Bhutan’s first vintage goes to auction.
💲 Mouton Rothschild at bargain prices. Plus, F&W’s critic says Bordeaux futures are “the best bet in a decade.”
Get Out There
🛎️ Great Sonoma hotels for your wine journey. (And when to go.)
👣 Time to hit the Lambrusco trail.
🌵 “Upon visiting [this] Napa winery, you may find yourself wondering, Bugs Bunny style, if you somehow took a wrong turn at Albuquerque.
The Business
💸 Sonoma’s Medlock Ames is for sale.
🍾 Champagne producers look to markets other than the U.S.
🎥 GQ takes on Francis Ford Coppola.
Booo
⁉️ British gangs have taken up wine counterfeiting.
🥱 Bordeaux blues: “Tariff anxiety, a weak dollar and a so-so vintage have American wine merchants unenthused about the latest futures campaign.”
Woooo!
🎉 We have some news!
🚜 Why so much fuss about dry farming? “We clearly get the real expression of the vineyard terroir in the wine. We achieve the full complexity, elegance, and structure that the grape can give us, especially with the mineral sensation and expression of the terroir.”
⛪ “With a resident population of between 500 and 1,000 people . . . Vatican City is the world’s top wine importer per capita.”
📦 Also: Pope Francis’s Burgundy shipments.
Not Wine
🧠 Is this distillery making the most interesting whiskeys in America?
🛢️ Untraceable casks are becoming a problem.
The Opinion Page
📋 NYT’s critic on how some restaurants get their wines-by-the-glass programs right.
🍇 “Do you really need to own the vines to make fine wine?”
Thanks for reading! Drink well this week!
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