Culture in the middle of the wine province - With a unique event location with a vaulted cellar inside and stages in the lovely gardens outside, "Gut Leben am Morstein" near Mainz earned the prize for the Great Wine Capitals Best of Wine Tourism Award 2022 in the category "Art and Culture".

Do you know your Marselan from your Castets? Six 'new' grape varieties have now been approved for use in Bordeaux wines and the first plantings are expected in 2021.

The Sotheby’s 2020 Wine Market Report -Sotheby’s said wine and spirits auction sales rose by around 44% to $132m (£99.6m) in 2021, boosted by record prices, fresh partnerships, and a wave of new buyers.

Sothebys expands own-label collection with new affordable wines. The storied auction house has announced that six new wines will join its portfolio this autumn, all at accessible prices.

With California facing drought conditions in 2021 following a 2020 growing season that was one of the driest and warmest in recent history, University of California (UC) crop water management and irrigation specialists provided advice to Lodi winegrape growers during two March workshops to help manage irrigation this season. Growers are advised to begin irrigation early for proper canopy growth and fruit set, use available technologies to monitor water status and efficiently apply irrigation, and monitor soils and irrigation water for salinity levels.

Six months after the fires subsided, vintners are still assessing how much fruit suffered smoke taint.