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France to help farmers to abandon glyphosate weedkiller
PARIS (Reuters) - France will give financial aid to farmers who agree to halt use of glyphosate, the farm ministry said on Monday after President Macron said he had failed with efforts to ban use of the weedkiller by 2021.
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As Drinks Get Funky, The Line Between Beer and Wine Blurs
Vinnie Cilurzo’s Sonoma barrel room is meticulously organized. The Russian River Brewing Company brewmaster keeps the 6,000-square-foot space at exactly 58°F, and the neatly arranged wooden barrels are stacked five high.
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Brut Sous Bois Q & A with Mathieu Roland-Billecart
No one needs a reason to drink Champagne but ringing out 2020 is certainly a good opportunity to reach for something beyond your sentimental favorite. In an effort to learn more about Billecart-Salmon’s Brut Sous Bois, I asked Mathieu Roland-Billecart for the inside scoop on this particular cuvée.
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Charles Heidsieck Revives a Unique Champagne
Usually, Champagne houses release prestige cuvées with great fanfare, but this one is a little different.
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Booze has a long history on the space station – even though NASA has banned drinking in space for almost 50 years
Researchers sent red wine into orbit last year so astronauts could study how space affects it.
It's not the first time booze launched into space: Russian cosmonauts have smuggled liquor into orbit, and NASA astronauts have occasionally indulged, though NASA banned drinking in
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Legendary Bordeaux: The Stories of Bordeaux’s First Growth Wines
Since the 1855 classification, the first growths of Bordeaux Médoc and Graves have stood at the top of the heap, the monarchs of all they survey. Other chateaus, however good, can aspire to, but never seem to reach, the pinnacle of these five (originally, four).
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Nyetimber exports up 90% in 2020
Exports for English sparkling wine brand Nyetimber have grown by more than 90% in 2020.
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HOW THE INTERNET IS CHANGING THE WAY WE BUY WINE
The internet has long played a part in the selling of wine, but no more so than in 2020. With footfall in traditional wine merchants falling, restaurants closing and on-trade agencies seeing their accounts dwindle, the drinks trade has had to adapt, and for many the internet has provided a welcome refuge, offering new ways of reaching consumers
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This viral cake-cutting method using wine glasses is kind of genius
That way, you can say "cheers" with a cupful of cake!
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Cape Winemakers Guild welcomes new members and protégés
The Cape Winemakers Guild (CWG) is proud to announce the two new members joining its ranks and the three new CWG Protégés who have joined their Protégé Programme.
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Piedmont gets new DOCG area ‘Terre Alfieri’
The new DOCG zone near to Asti has been officially approved after a 10-year campaign, local wine officials have announced.
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HOSPICES DE BEAUNE FOUNDER’S TOMB RE-DISCOVERED
The tomb and remains of Nicolas Rolin, the founder of the Hospices de Beaune, have apparently been re-discovered in Autun.
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Diam finances the largest planting programme of cork oaks ever rolled out in Provence
Home to France’s second most extensive woodland area, with 1.6 million hectares, Provence has prioritised the renewal of its forestry heritage. In a bid to combat fires and promote biodiversity, last year it launched the ‘1 million trees planted by 2021’ scheme.
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Proof that cling film removes cork taint
It’s long been rumoured that cling film can remove TCA contamination from wine. The scientists have now passed judgement, says Robert Joseph, and sales of clingfilm are sure to follow.
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‘SEXIST’ CARTOON PROMPTS OUTRAGE IN FRENCH WINE CIRCLES
A “crude” and “misogynistic” cartoon that recently appeared in the French wine guide ‘En Magnum’ has sparked a fierce debate about attitudes towards women among the, predominantly older, male members at the top of the Francophone wine writing scene.
Ouder en wijzer worden is een lastige hobbel.
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On wine and good health in the pandemic circa 1348 (my Georgetown Humanities Initiative lecture).
When esteemed wine educator Karen MacNeil upbraided me last year for writing about a wine and its effect on my metabolism, it only reminded me of what a soulless wine writer she is. And her pungent words came to mind this week when I delivered a virtual lecture on wine as an expression of Western
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Hungarian varieties in the spotlight
Hungary is a small player in the vast world of wine, but one that not only punches above its weight, but which offers some of the most unique wines in the world. Come on a short journey through this fascinating wine land.
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MENETOU-SALON AND THE SAGA OF JACQUES COEUR
The alchemist. He who makes something out of nothing: taking scraps of metal and creating gold. One of the most renowned French merchants and political benefactors, Jacques Coeur, was not only an investor and businessman but was also rumored to have partaken in the tomfoolery of alchemy. We now know that if these claims were true, that this man, seen
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Mourvedre: Sidelined by Phylloxera No More
One of the silver linings of the last nine months unable to travel has been the chance to spend time virtually with some of California winemakers whose work I find inspiring. One of these is Bedrock Wine Company's Morgan Twain-Peterson. He and I were paired up in the finale of the California Wine Institute's "Behind the Wine" serie
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Two in three independent French winegrowers belong to an environmental scheme
“Once again, the figures illustrate how rapidly independent winegrowers are responding to environmental challenges. 69% of them are now certified or converting to organic (A and/or High Environmental Value (HVE) initiatives, which they pioneered”, said the independent winegrower association in a press release.
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Sauternes : la liste des châteaux qui participent aux portes ouvertes
Les forces vives de l’appellation Sauternes-Barsac accueillent le public le samedi 12 et dimanche 13 décembre.
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The Impact of DNA Research on Traditional Winemaking
Since the Romans began planting vines throughout their empire in the centuries before the birth of Christ, man has had to adapt to environmental issues and problems.
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Yeast: How a Mighty Little Fungus Evolved To Change the World
Without alcohol, it’s fair to say that modern society would look quite different. Beer, for instance, is believed by some archeologists to be the reason humans transitioned from hunter-gatherers to farmers. And wine has been an integral part of life around the world for centuries.
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The Secret to Spain’s Signature Style of Wine? Centuries-Old Architecture
While modern wineries feature their share of architectural wonders, the historic bodegas of the Sherry triangle, many of which date to the mid-1800s, boast their own engineering marvels. Most were designed to create specific microclimates that encourage the development of flor, the blanket of dead yeast cells that forms
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REFLECTIONS ON OBJECTIVITY AND WINE TASTING (1)
The debate about whether wine tasting has objective standards too often assumes a mistaken picture of how taste works. The mistaken picture is something like this: Wine has chemical compounds that produce flavors that are fixed features of the wine itself. When tasters report the flavors they detect in the wine, they either get it right or not. I
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Mouton Cadet in search of the Holy Grail of ‘zero pesticide residue’
“For our ninetieth harvest, all Mouton Cadet winegrowers are HVE (High Environmental Value) certified”, announced Véronique Hombroekx, CEO of Baron Philippe de Rothschild (BPR) brands. “We have seen our commitments through, despite sometimes challenging situations”, stressed Hombroekx, who manages Bordeaux’s first wine brand,
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Prices of red Burgundy boosted by a surge in white wine production
Over the past few weeks, prices of Pinot noir labelled under the regional Burgundy appellation have soared by 30%. “A distinction should be made between the generic Burgundy appellation which has gone from 900 to 1,200 euros a cask and AOC Burgundy Côte d'Or, which is doing very well, and has risen from 1,100 to 1,200 euro
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GEN Z DRINKERS IN AUSTRALIA ARE NOW DRINKING WINE MORE FREQUENTLY THAN MILLENNIALS
Insights such as this will be available in the new Wine Intelligence Australia Wine Consumer Observatory 2021, which will be the one-stop shop for businesses selling wine in Canada.
The Australia Observatory will consist of Wine Intelligence reports and webinars delivered by Wine Intelligence market experts –
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Why Were Rabbis Pouring Away Gallons of Kosher Wine?
A new video clip showed how Chabad Rabbi Eliezer Brod was overseeing the pouring down the drain gallons of kosher wine. Here's why the owners of the Bravdo Winery in Israel's Judean Foothills didn't mind it...
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Australian wine producers facing bleak future with China's tariffs
Wineries in some of Australia's premier wine regions are looking down the barrel of a difficult future with China's wine tariffs likely to put smaller wineries out of business and force larger growers into new markets.
Trump is hier een kleine jongen bij.
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