Every Wednesday I post my recommendations of the best of last week’s postings concerning wine, whether blogs or news. I list them in the order I read them, so you shouldn’t infer anything about the order in which I list these posts.

2012 could bring more grape contracts, vineyard sales

Jeff Quackenbush

http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/45663/2012-could-be-the-year-of-the-vineyard/

A shortage of grapes after a couple of short harvests along with rising demand bodes well for grapegrowers.

Natural Wine: The Ugly Underbelly

Fermentation

http://fermentation.typepad.com/fermentation/2012/01/natural-wine-ugly-underbelly.html

Must advocates of “natural wine” denigrate the rest of the wine-making world?

Another conversation about AVAs and terroir

Steve Heimoff

http://www.steveheimoff.com/index.php/2012/01/05/another-conversation-about-avas-and-terroir/

Another reminder of the limitations of terroir and AVA’s.

Wine prices in 2012

The Wine Curmudgeon

http://www.winecurmudgeon.com/my_weblog/2012/01/wine-prices-in-2012.html#more

Wine prices are going back up as oversupply is finally sold off and an undersupply of grapes and bulk wine reduce supply.

Wine and health

jamie goode’s wine blog

http://www.wineanorak.com/wineblog/uncategorized/wine-and-health

This posts touches a number of issues relating to how healthy (or not) wine is.

For keeping up to date with what’s going on the in wine world, the best all around source is http://winebusiness.com.

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