New EU regulations are going to force the wine industry to focus its attention on back labels. Robert Joseph argues that this is no bad thing.

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Robert Joseph takes a different view of how attractively-priced wines are perceived.

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Robert Joseph suggests that wine is not all about terroir and food-matching.

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Robert Joseph takes a look at how some big companies are reacting to an increasingly polarised wine industry.

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Robert Joseph takes a sceptical look at claims being made for environmental consciousness among the young.

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Robert Joseph offers some advice for producers looking for distribution in a saturated market.

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In Alsace, a wine may only bear the grape variety designation Riesling on the label if it consists of this variety and has also been vinified dry. Is this the right decision? A commentary by Vincent Messmer. 

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Robert Joseph’s suggestion that wine marketers could learn from the effort studios put into promoting movies like Barbie attracted a lot of interest. Now he wonders if there could be lessons too in the numbers of people who chose to watch that film in a double feature with Oppenheimer.

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Robert Joseph takes a fresh look at the potential usefulness of press releases, in an age when their most valuable readers might just be artificially intelligent robots.

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