What can be done to save the ailing wine industry?

By Eric Asimov

The wine trade is in trouble. With a combination of declining consumption, rotting fruit left on the vine, public health warnings, tariffs and the overarching crisis of climate change, most people would agree that wine faces challenges.

The bigger question is how the wine industry should respond. What, if anything, should it do differently? Or should it wait things out and hope that this is a cyclical change?

I’ve been covering wine for more than 20 years, and...