This is the wine industry's new normal: heavy rains, floods, hailstones, drought and sometimes even frost.

The world's wine industry will converge Sunday when the prestigious Vinexpo kicks off in Bordeaux, the capital of French viticulture, with Chinese visitors leading the pack of foreign punters.

There's been a long-running dispute about the extent that fungi which infect vines influence the flavor and aroma of wines.

Food technologists have created flat sheets made up of gelatin and starch.

The worlds of vintage wine and vintage cycling gently collided on Sunday as thousands of amateur enthusiasts took to the country lanes of southern Tuscany for the Eroica Montalcino cycling festival.