Typically, as we head into fall, the wine world hype surrounds the harvest and what people think of the upcoming vintage and what it promises for the future. How big will the crop be? What is the quality of the fruit? What will the prices be?

But nowadays, it’s tough to get past the breaking wine news, like 53 per cent of Americans no longer drink alcohol, that sobriety is trending, wildfires threatening vineyards worldwide, falling sales causing vine pullouts, the Boomers aging out, and the World Health Organization’s proclamation that “the only good alcohol is no alcohol.”

Yet with some 6,000 years of production going for it and having survived its share of many down times, wine insiders think the business is on its way backup. Maybe. But there is a lot of work to be done to reverse th

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