Wine News
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With many wines, laying them down for a long period improves them and this is a factor in good wines becoming great wines. However, sometimes wines go off and develop a bad smell. New research reveals why.
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By AFP
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Two Jordanian families aim to put wine from their desert land on the world viticultural map, reviving an age-old tradition that some suggest has Biblical heritage.
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By AFP
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Global wine production rose 13 percent this year, after a catastrophic 2017 which was marked by heatwaves, frosts and hailstorms, the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) said Monday.
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By AFP
Washington -
President Donald Trump accused France on Tuesday of unfairly hindering US wine exports by imposing higher tariffs on the American product than those the United States places on imports of French wine.
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By AFP
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Five years ago, a group of university students in Spain's Basque Country decided they wanted to shake up a sector -- any sector -- but preferably one to do with food or drink.
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By AFP
New York -
A bottle of 1945 Romanee-Conti wine fetched a record-smashing $558,000 at an auction held at Sotheby's in New York Saturday, which saw two bottles break the previous record.
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By AFP
Paris -
2018 is shaping up to be a vintage year for French wine -- the best for almost a decade.The near perfect combination of a wet spring followed by a long hot summer has left winemakers rubbing their hands with glee.
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By AFP
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With the aid of a small crane, Borja Saracho lowers five cages loaded with 2,500 bottles of white wine from a fishing boat into the Cantabrian Sea.
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By AFP
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French wine lovers have risen up in revolt after a Japanese couple who make "outstanding" wine in southern France were threatened with deportation.
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By AFP
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French financial police have seized 10 wineries in the Bordeaux area which are owned by Chinese conglomerate Haichang over suspicions of tax fraud, a police source told AFP on Friday.
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By AFP
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The last batch of late legendary winemaker Henri Jayer's Burgundies -- which include some of the world's most expensive wines -- was sold for a mouth-watering 30 million euros ($35 million) in Geneva on Sunday, well in excess of the estimated price.
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By AFP
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The last batch of late legendary winemaker Henri Jayer's Burgundies -- which include some of the world's most expensive wines -- go on auction in Geneva Sunday and could rake in up to $13 million.
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By AFP
Dijon -
A Chardonnay from a small vineyard in France's Burgundy region been flying off the shelves in Britain after wine lovers learned that it was served at last month's wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
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By AFP
Geneva -
The last batch of late legendary winemaker Henri Jayer's Burgundies -- which include some of the world's most expensive wines -- will go on auction in Geneva next month and could rake in up to $13 million.
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By AFP
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Bottles of fine wine worth hundreds of thousands of euros have been returned to a top French chef, police said on Thursday.
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By AFP
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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.
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By AFP
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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."The total harvest in 2017 was 3.
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By AFP
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As the unofficial capital of France's Burgundy region, Beaune is a town that thrives on wine -- and now even its cows are going to taste like grapes.
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By AFP
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The world's earliest evidence of grape wine-making has been detected in 8,000-year-old pottery jars unearthed in Georgia, making the tradition almost 1,000 years older than previously thought, researchers said Monday.
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By AFP
Paris -
Worldwide wine production tumbled 8.2 percent this year to hit a 50-year low due to unfavourable climate conditions, the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) said Tuesday.The total output of 246.
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By AFP
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Sitting among the vines of Sauvignon Blanc and Tempranillo growing on his spectacular farm in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, Michel Emad remembers the not-so-distant time when he opted to cultivate cannabis.
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By AFP
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On the verdant, fertile Gallipoli peninsula in northwest Turkey, headscarf-clad women in colourful clothes harvest grapes in the blistering late summer heat.
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By AFP
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Bad weather caused a severe decrease in this year's grape harvest in the Champagne region, but growers predicted Friday that quality would trump quantity in this year's bubbly.
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By AFP
Rome -
Researchers have discovered that the oldest wine in the world may have been Italian, after finding traces of 6,000-year-old fermented grapes off the west coast of Sicily.
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By AFP
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Knocked off course by a cold spring snap, French wine production this year slid to a record low, falling 17 percent on 2016, initial ministry of agriculture projections show."At 37.6 million hectolitres (993.
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By AFP
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This is the wine industry's new normal: heavy rains, floods, hailstones, drought and sometimes even frost.
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By AFP
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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.
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There's been a long-running dispute about the extent that fungi which infect vines influence the flavor and aroma of wines. A new study shows this to be the case. Interestingly there are both positive and negative effects.
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By AFP
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When a severe, unseasonal cold snap gripped Bordeaux vineyards in late April, winegrowers sprang into action. They set fires in thousands of oil drums, positioning them carefully between the rows of budding grapevines in southwest France.
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By AFP
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After a week of rigorous tests ranging from blind tastings to expertly pairing wines with sumptuous meals, a Latvian has beat out 37 rivals to become Europe's top-rated sommelier.
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Wine glass design influences the taste of the wine.
Toronto's Gourmet Food & Wine Expo an elegant affair
Wilson Design Studio's booth featured fused glass, available in a rainbow of colors. They also work with recycled glass, creating abstract and unique home decor.
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Toronto's Gourmet Food & Wine Expo an elegant affair
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Toronto's Gourmet Food & Wine Expo an elegant affair
"From Napa to Persia - Wine at the Persian Table," by Najmieh Batmanglij. Mage Publishers, (2008) Washington, DC
A wide selection of Texas wines were available for tasting at the Dripping With Taste Wine & Food Festival.
Iowa State researchers tested how the table setting and the size or shape of a glass influences how much wine you pour. Eurekalert - Bob Elbert, Iowa State University
Beaujolais Nouveau launch day, Lyon France 2010
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Toronto's Gourmet Food & Wine Expo an elegant affair
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Server Jocelyn pours a reserve wine.
A scrumptious white wine from the Rhone valley area, tasting even better in Lyon.
Balsamic vinegars and infused oils are the specialty of Spicewood Food Company.
George Maisuradze and Vako Elisabedashvili in Tbilisi wine shop are enthusiastic about Georgain wine potential.
The taste of wine is affected by wine glass design.
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