Bottles of fine wine worth hundreds of thousands of euros have been returned to a top French chef, police said on Thursday.

Surveying a nearly empty cellar, Frederic Nivelle of Bordeaux's prestigious Chateau Climens, reflects on what might have been an outstanding year for the sweet white Sauternes wine.

Wine production in the French region of Bordeaux shrank by 40 percent in 2017, the Bordeaux wine council said Wednesday, with severe frost sapping yields in a year that nonetheless produced a good vintage."

Sri Lanka's president on Sunday reimposed a four-decade-long ban on women buying liquor, just days after his finance minister had lifted the restriction.

Country songstress Carly Pearce chatted with Digital Journal about her new radio single "Hide The Wine," as well as the success of "Every Little Thing."