This week Sam discusses fires in South Africa, Australia and Argentina, Facebook’s arbitrary restriction on alcohol-related accounts, France’s restriction of copper fungicides and the 2025 State of the US Wine Industry Report from Silicon Valley Bank.

You can read the transcript of this newscast (with linked news sources) at https://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/fires-south-africa-australia-and-argentina-fb-bans-state-us-wine-industry-report.