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Wine news in 5 Trinchero purchases Mumm Napa, Chablis updates AOC, Canada sells off US booze

Plus Mendoza’s recent embrace of copper mining and the end of the Sud de France moniker on wine labels. Above, a view of Chablis. Before I get to global news...

Samantha Cole-Johnson Friday 19 December 2025 • 3 min read

Sep 2022 drought-stressed Merlot in Bordeaux

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Mediterranean wine – what is it?

Why defining the identity of Mediterranean wine is more important now than ever. Thousands of years before the châteaux of...

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A carbon-cutting wine-buying guide

An easy way to make planet-friendly wine choices, no greenwashing allowed, courtesy of International Wineries for Climate Action. Above, IWCA...

Wine news in 5

Brazil floods, Sea Smoke sale, rising temperatures, wine magazine abandons print

The warming climate continues to wreak havoc on wine regions around the world, as evidenced by the photo above of...

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Alsace – grand cru power

How much power is too much? Above, Grand Cru Brand, from the middle of the vineyard. Are Alsace's grands crus...

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The New Viticulture – book review

Jamie Goode writes a rough draft of the potentially best new-viticulture book of the decade. The New Viticulture The science...

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Fire and rain

2 November 2023 Today we’re republishing this report on the devastating floods in Chile to draw your attention to a...

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Putting the south in South Africa

26 October 2023 Since my original article was published, a mining company, Cienth Pty Ltd, has reapplied for a prospecting...

Looking across Kelowna's city downtown on August 18, across Okanagan Lake to the hills of West Kelowna, which are in flames.

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Okanagan Valley on fire

British Columbia, in western Canada, has had its worst wildfire season on record, and the latest is threatening Kelowna, in...

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Roussillon reflections on climate change

Following up on Tam's March visit to France's Roussillon, when the wild rocket and cherry trees were in full bloom...

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Roussillon resilience in the face of climate crisis

With water in short supply, Roussillon's vintners are planning ahead. Above, one of Treloar's old-vine vineyards showing verdant ground cover...

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Climate mitigation – serious business

We can make a difference – and other takeaways from the Sustainable Wine Roundtable’s latest conference. Last month, the Sustainable...

Omahu vineyard in Gimblett Gravels Jan 2023

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NZ 2023 – not to be written-off

A plea from the cyclone-hit east coast of the North Island. Above, the Omahu vineyard in the Gimblett Gravels in...

Vineyards in the arid, red landscape of Mexico's Valle de Guadalupe

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Sustainable winegrowing in a warming world

Severe drought and extreme heat pose a significant threat to wine production – especially in Baja California, Mexico (although see...

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Guide to our old-vines coverage

28 June 2023 The Old Vine Registry has just been launched! See this article for background. 9 February 2023 Exciting...

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Climate change in Burgundy

5 January 2023 We're republishing this article free in our Throwback Thursday series to remind you of the topic of...

Kimberly Nicholas, sustainability scientist at Lund University in Sweden

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Our third podcast – climate change and wine

In this third episode of the JancisRobinson.com Podcast, Elaine Chukan Brown talks climate-change activism with sustainability scientist Kimberly Nicholas. Two...