TODAY'S TOP NEWS

• The Chinese Tmall/WeChat Model: How to Tap New Wine Distribution Models in China *Sponsored Link*

• Monterey Wines Conjunctive Labeling Goes into Effect January 1, 2019
• Getting to know Lodi’s new mayor, Mark Chandler
• Retaliatory tariffs continue to hurt state’s exports
• California winery goes green in a big way
• How To Sell Wine Into Restaurants Effectively *Sponsored Link*

• FSA County Offices Now Closed Until Further Notice
• Ohio winery feeling ripple effects of government shutdown

LOOKING BACK AT 2018

• 4 Top-Performing Themes In Wine This Year, And 4 Other Ideas That Flopped
• 2018 Another Dry Year for California
• The Wine Year in Review
• Top New Wine Videos of 2018
• The Best Investments of 2018? Art, Wine and Cars
• Jim's Loire: Looking back at 2018 & forward to 2019
• Lodi Winegrape Commission - Blog - Lodi in the 2018 national news
• 5 Ways Technology Can Help You Achieve New Year’s Resolutions

SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE TOP NEWS

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• Great bubbly from England, believe it or not
• Do Your Champagne Bubbles Tell You How Good It Is?
• The story of California Chardonnay – part 3
• What does it take to be a lover of Italian wine?
• The Italian South Rises | Robert Camuto: Going Native in Europe
• Wine: The joy of going au natural
• What Did Jesus Drink? A Bethlehem Winery is Embracing Ancient, Indigenous Grapes
• Judson Haims: Like a good bourbon or wine, aging is a good thing
• Randall Murray: Resolutions, and a surprising red wine, worth keeping
• A More Subtle Anti-Terroirism
• Port’s Dilemma: ‘Before Dinner Is Too Early; After Too Late’
• Going Organic in Champagne: Hervé Jestin of Leclarc Briant
• Raising Arizona Wines

• WSET to mark 50 years of wine education
• WSET introduces global education week as part of 50th anniversary activity

• Monticello wine region expanding into Fluvanna
• Colorado Wine Country: the $300 million industry that keeps growing

• Organic vs. Biodynamic vs. Natural Wine—What's the Difference?
• Not Every ‘Natural Wine’ Is Responsibly Farmed
• Alternative Bordeaux (1) biodynamics at Château Palmer
• Alternative Bordeaux (2) Château Falfas, Côtes de Bourg
• Fetzer Vineyards COO Cindy DeVries Named "Green Personality of the Year"

• Farm Injuries Can be a Direct Path to Opioid Addiction in Families
• Science and Wine: Wine Science Cafés
• Science and Wine: Immobilization yeasts in oak chips or cellulose powder

• A taste of Australian cellar doors in Chinese homes
• 'The perfect crime': Aussie business battles counterfeit wine in China
• Cellar door opens in Perth city to smooth winery’s path to China
• Hong Kong-listed wine firm Madison to buy US$30 million stake in Japanese platform

• Standard bottle of South African wine now costs R380 in Qatar
• Wine merchant Mnikelo Mangciphu: A Soweto wine merchant