The label of Château Mouton Rothschild 2008 has been designed by Chinese artist Xu Lei. Since 1945, Mouton Rothschild each year selects another artist to design its label. It is only the second time that [...]

Although the total French wine production fell by two percent in 2010, our southern neighbors remain the world’s largest wine producer, reports the Organisation internationale de la Vigne et du Vin (OIV). Although the final [...]

Japanese diplomats will have to thin their wine cellars. The Japanese foreign ministry has started an audit to measure the value of the wine cellars of the Japanese embassies abroad. Wine cellars that are too [...]

The association of champagne growers CIVC has gone to court in an effort to close the nuclear dump in Soulaines, 9km away from the champagne vineyards in the Côte de Bars. The CIVC requests that [...]

Researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand claim that wine in their country is cheaper than water. A standard glass of bulk wine costs in New Zealand often no more than 62 NZD-cents [...]

The alternative Australian closure for a bottle of sparkling wine Zork SPK which we reported on back in 2004, is coming to Europe. The British supermarket chain Tesco now sells four sparkling wines with this [...]

Abstaining is just as bad for your life expectancy as heavy drinking and moderate drinkers live longer, a new study shows. Scientists examined the association between alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality over 20 years among [...]

At restaurants, receptions and meetings more and more Belgians prefer to drink beer; the popularity of champagne and wine is in decline. This emerged from the fourth beer barometer of the Union of Belgian Brewers [...]

The Wine and Spirit Board of South Africa proposes to allow vintners to add water to grape musts. Because of global warming the grapes contain more sugar, which leads to high alcohol levels. But alcohol-rich [...]

The French Institut National de l’origine et de la qualité (INAO) may decide in November to recognize fourteen new municipal appellations in Alsace, reports the French newspaper Le Pays. The AOC Alsace will receive a [...]