Do artificial Intelligence-powered personal wine recommendations solve a problem? Robert Joseph isn't so certain.

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Robert Joseph wonders why a beverage made from grapes is casually treated so differently to one made from coffee beans or tea leaves.

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The UK has its first wine PDO, with boundaries that reflect a county, rather than an area with specific vinous characteristics. Robert Joseph wonders how much this matters.

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The romantic image of a wine industry made up of small family-owned estates sometimes has to be set against the reality of hard economics.

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As Ukrainian cities are devastated and populations displaced, wine businesses are increasingly expected to join in the boycott or Vladimir Putin's Russia. But, Robert Joseph wonders, how relaxed should they feel about some of their other export markets?

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A rather different column this week, about the extraordinary Vinitaly International Academy courses.

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Robert Joseph wonders why so many members of the wine industry still struggle to acknowledge the potential of rosé wine.

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For many members of the industry, future success depends on ‘educating the public about wine’. But is that broad ambition really the answer? Robert Joseph wonders if, instead of focusing on what we want, we should be thinking more about giving consumers information they might actually find helpful.

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When you are served a faulty bottle of wine at a professional event, should you say something? Or remain politely silent? Robert Joseph shares his experience of making the wrong decision.

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