Decanter The year that was: Wine news stories of 2020
We take a look back at Decanter news coverage over the past 12 months, charting happenings across the wine world - and not only those related to Covid-19.
Decanter’s wine news coverage in 2020.
January
France’s first ‘dry January’ campaign divided the nation, criticised by several leading writers and chefs as an ‘Anglo-Saxon and puritan obsession’.
Australia’s bushfires dominated headlines.
Wine Australia said less than 1% of vineyard land lay in fire zones, but Henschke reported 1,100ha of vines in the northern Adelaide Hills damaged in late December, including 90% of its own 25ha Lenswood estate. Most of the vineyard would be back in production by 2022, it added in an April update.