Hello and welcome to my weekly roundup of the wine stories that I find of interest on the web. I spend each week trolling the web for everything published about wine online, and here’s everything that I think would be worth your valuable time.

Highway to Hella Chenin
A review of an excellent event.

Remembering Italian Winemaker Franco Bernabei
Not well known in the US, but very influential in Tuscany.

Livermore wine families feud over Concannon ownership
A local soap opera.

Monarch Tractors Promised to Save American Wine With AI. Then, It Closed. What Happened?
Ah, the great promise of AI meets the reality of manufacturing and agricuture.

Forget Franzia—Boxed Wine Went Bougie. Now Sales Have Surged More Than 144 Percent
Slap the bag!

Sonoma County Begins One of Its Earliest Winegrape Harvests in Years
Earliest ever for many.

California’s next big wine craze is breaking all the rules
I dislike the word “blouge” but the wines are great. Is it a craze, tho?

Here’s how much regulations add to a Napa small winery’s costs, per Cal Poly
It’s a staggering sum — close to 10% of the cost of goods sold in one example.

The Champagne Fallacy
Jay McInerney can’t recommend the bath.

Fire Nears Bordeaux, a City of Wine and History
It’s serious. Friends there say, however, that it is starting to get under control.

Wildfires threaten wine city of Bordeaux as France and Spain battle blazes
More coverage. 250,000 people evacuated.

Wildfires threaten historic vineyards in Sierra de Gredos
And it’s not just Bordeaux. We don’t know the extent of the old vine losses here, yet, but it will be tragic.

Inside The French Laundry’s Wine Program: How Wine Is Selected For Every Guest
Yuri Shima goes behind the scenes.

There’s a Chablis for Every Kind of Chardonnay Lover
And even for some who think they don’t like Chardonnay.

China’s White Wine Boom Has Triggered a Marlborough Price War
And NZ Sav Blanc is on the battlefield.