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Gentleman critic Michael Broadbent, who specializes in old and rare wines, has sued the publishers of a book about fraudster Hardy Rodenstock. Seemed like a bad idea, but he won.

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Slate.com's Mike Steinberger celebrates France's national holiday with a discussion of the concept of terroir and the assertion that "...when it comes to quality and variety, France still rules."

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Gary Vaynerchuk is a New Jersey-based wine merchant turned critic with an online "tv show". He's become a big star on the American wine scene and this week he gets all Canadian with talk of hockey and icewine and two brothers from New Brunswick.

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A new service launching in July promises to take the secondary wine market in a whole new direction - with a virtual wine warehouse and online trading.

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Easily the most successful of the celebrity wine producers, Francis Ford Coppola may be based in Napa now, but he still knows his way around Hollywood.

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The venerable wine critic surely wishes he were comparing French and American wines, but Robert Parker has been ordered to stand trial in Paris in July...

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It's getting worse and South Australia's feeling it. The city of Adelaide's water supply is under threat. But "we're surprised how well some vines survive using less water," says a winery owner.

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Like a slow motion clown punching bag, this perfectly reasonable suggestion pops up every couple of years, and every couple of years it gets knocked back down. But this time, for what it's worth, there's a Private Member's Bill.

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