Handpicked stories from across the Web…

Have wine experts forgotten the virtues of white wine?
Wine diva Jancis Robinson declares: “Dry white wine can be every bit as ‘serious’ as red.” Makes you thirsty just reading about it.

French launch carton of wine with a straw
Sacré bleu! Will it take this junk-food approach to win over France’s declining wine youth market? “…more amusing,” declares a straw-enamored 21-year-old Parisian.

No wine? Wine not?
And yet stateside, wine is making a comeback among college students. “I think it’s more social because you’re not down chugging beer, you’re able to sip,” says an observant Tulsa, Okla., college junior.

Snobless Sipping Where a Glassful Is Just a Glassful
Pay an intoxicating visit to San Francisco’s eclectic wine-bar scene.

Napa couple shares wine profits with the children of fallen soldiers
“No matter how you feel about the war (in Iraq), it’s about the kids.”

Patterning itself after the home of France’s classic Pinot Noir, the Willamette Valley is becoming a wine country destination unto itself
If this mouth-watering review of wines and wineries doesn’t get you packing to Oregon, nothing will.

Montepulciano high and low
The 30 Second Wine Advisor explains the differences in these far-apart Italian reds. Valuable info next time you’ve got a rib-eye ready for the barbecue.

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