The Week in Wine Episode 27

Don drinks a 100-point wine and we have a look at the implications therein, including asking if we will ever see the likes of Robert Parker's influence in the wine world again. The news that Piedmont is facing crisis dominates readership figures for the second week in a row, while US Editor Blake Gray's coverage of the Premiere Napa Valley auction (which Gray says "the downturn has come for Napa wines") also brings in the readers. Other stories covered this week include the continued saga of Trump administration wine tariffs (and an interesting aside from the makers of Cards Against Humanity), the possibility that the no-alcohol wine craze may be something of a bubble, and the continued popularity of a story on UK sparkling wine – particularly among our...UK readers. Olly looks at the EU announcing aid for France's crisis distillation project, the passing of NZ-based winemaker CP Lin, the proposal for a Languedoc Cité du Vin tourist wine venue in Carcassonne, Australian winemaker Jane Eyre takes the reins at Comte Armand in Pommard, Spain announces its fourth year of yield reduction, Slow Wine demands an end to labor exploitation in the vineyards, and positives and negatives for Rioja in export and domestic sales stats.