Wine news February 16, 2016

In The Evening Standard Jancis Robinson on 10 things everyone should know about wine. "Some of the best-value wines in the world are those that have been unfashionable, such as sweet wines and all but the most celebrated sherries and ports."

In Decanter France grapples with the definition of natural wine. "Several of the winemakers who attend natural wine fairs, such as RAW in London, say that they do not believe their philosophy should be reduced to ‘ticking boxes’."

Vice on how young women drink almost half the wine in America. "As a group, Millennials drank 159.6 million cases of wine in 2015. That’s more than any other generation and constitutes 42 percent of all of the wine consumed in the US last year."

The Drinks Business on how wine helps prevent dementia.

In Food and Wine how Talia Baiocchi is changing the world of wine writing. "It took time for people to come along and usurp that old-school Wine Spectator style of criticism that had been institutionalized for so long."