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 a Chinese artist has been chosen. The label of Mouton Rothschild 1996 was designed by the Chinese calligrapher Gu Gan. Xu Lei has drawn a > Read more …
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 figure is not completely calculated, France will this year produce 44.45 million hectoliters of wine. Globally, this year 260 million hectoliters of wine has been > Read more …
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 big need to be culled. The affected Japanese embassies will either have to sell the wines, or send them to colleagues with smaller cellars. According > Read more …
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 the Administrative Court in Châlons-en-Champagne cancels the permission to store low-level nuclear waste in Soulaines. The French atomic agency ANDRA received the permission in 2006. > Read more …
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 (34 eurocents), compared with 64 cents for a glass of bottled wine, 67 cents for a glass of water of 250 ml and 43 cents > Read more …
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 resealable stopper: Sparkling Brut Rosé Mateus, Tesco 1531 Blanquette de Limoux, Dino Durello Spumante, and Tesco Finest Angas Brut Rose, reports the British magazine Harpers > Read more …
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 1,824 older American adults aged between 55 and 65. Compared to moderate drinkers, abstainers showed a two times increased mortality risk. Heavy drinkers had 70% > Read more …
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 and the newspaper Het Nieuwsblad. Twenty-five percent of Belgian restaurant visitors prefer beer, in comparison to only eighteen percent just three years ago. At a > Read more …
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 wines are less popular with consumers. That is why the South Africans want to water down their musts. The South African government has to approve > Read more …
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 similar pyramidal AOC hierarchy as AOC Languedoc. The new communal appellations is positioned above the overall AOC Alsace and below the AOC Alsace Grands Cru. > Read more …
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