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The wine industry is broken. Here's who gets to fix it
The wine industry is broken. Here's who gets to fix it
Winemakers who set their own price, and a vote on how we run things. Read more...
Vines at Domaine Lachat in Régnié, Beaujolais
Anne 🇫🇷
Issue No.10: "Never even crossed my mind." Meet Anne Lekkerkerker of Domaine Lachat, and the mixed case of organic Beaujolais wines from the granite soils of Régnié. Read more...
Vineyard rows on a hillside at Domaine Pascal Treichler, with forest behind and blue sky above
Issue No.9: Only £1.93 of a £10 bottle is wine
Why only £1.93 of a £10 bottle is wine, what People and Planet First verification means for Vivan, and a customer review. Read more...
Lluís Arias working in the Clos Costela vineyard with the mountains of Penedès behind
Toni and Lluís 🇪🇸
Issue No.8: "We don't make a living from it." Meet Toni and Lluís of Clos Costela, and the mixed case of natural, no-added-sulphite wines from the mountains of Penedès. Read more...
Hand-harvesting grapes in the heat during the 2026 vintage
Tough
Why this year's brutal European harvest, the hidden economics of cheap wine, and what's actually happening with Gen Z drinking and wine clubs — plus a personal note from Greg. Read more...
Wine and glass outdoors
What 128,182 blind-tasted wines just proved
New research says organic and biodynamic wines are beating conventional bottles in blind tastings — plus why one Rhône winemaker refuses to irrigate his vines. Read more...
Hand-worked cellar practices at Karma Village
Zero faults
Judges at the 2026 Global Orange Wine Masters found zero technical faults across the board — proof that careful natural winemaking isn't the gamble it's made out to be. Read more...
Pourquoi-Pas Blouge wine from Domaine Lachat, Beaujolais
Blouge
Blouge is France's hottest natural wine trend, and one of our members tracked hers down through a sommelier in the Netherlands before we even stocked it. Here's the story, plus... Read more...
Two harvest workers hand-picking grapes between vine rows in an English vineyard, early morning, 2026
It's not even September
Hi friend, It's still August, and half of Europe's vineyards have already started picking. Burgundy just recorded its earliest harvest in almost 500 years. Champagne is on course for the... Read more...
A vineyard consumed by wildfire in southern Europe, 2026
A Season Unlike Any We've Known
2026 has been the hardest growing season Vivan's winemakers have faced. Hailstorms, drought, wildfires — and the people behind your wine are living through all of it. Here's what happened,... Read more...