Kvevri in Georgia. (Wikimedia)

In the Drop, Felicity Carter makes a case for drinking Georgian wine right now. “Made here for 8,000 years, wine is deeply interwoven with Georgia’s national identity.Mr. Putin knows this. He’s acutely conscious of the meaning of wine and the value of terroir — especially other people’s,” she writes. “Which gives the rest of us a way to protest his invasion of Ukraine. Every glass and bottle of Georgian wine that we buy right now strikes a psychological blow against the Kremlin.”

“The owners of 57 vineyards in the High Plains say they are trying to prevent a catastrophic ecological ruin of the state’s $13 billion wine industry. They filed a lawsuit last summer against Bayer Crop Science and Monsanto Company (Bayer purchased Monsanto in 2018) and the BASF Corporation, the developers behind a “seed system” that pairs dicamba-tolerant seeds and dicamba herbicides used by cotton farmers in North Texas. The plaintiffs are seeking $560 million in punitive and economic damages.” Aaron Romano reports on the case details in Wine Spectator.

Provi, an ecommerce marketplace for the beverage alcohol industry, yesterday filed a complaint in Federal Court in Illinois against Southern Glazer’s Wines and Spirits (Southern) and Republic National Distributing Company (RNDC), the two largest wine and spirits distributors in the United States.

Alder Yarrow delves into English wine. “For even the most well-informed American wine lovers, English wine has seemingly appeared on the scene almost overnight. Certainly, when I started writing about wine seriously in 2004, it was so far off the radar as to be non-existent. But the modern UK wine industry has a history comparable to that of the American wine industry in post-prohibition times, and a much longer origin story that stretches back nearly two thousand years.”

In Forbes, Liz Thach profiles Anthony Schroth, who makes wine in Jackson Hole, Wyoming (with grapes purchased from West Coast vineyards).

Mike Veseth, the wine economist, says more people should be talking about Abruzzo.

Some staff changes are underway at Wine Enthusiast.