Row erupts over Champagne in VIP boxes at French sports stadiums
France’s health minister has suggested that Champagne be banned from VIP boxes in football stadiums...
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Beaujolais 2019 volumes hit by hail, heat and frost
Hit by April frosts, summer heatwaves and series of violent hailstorms...
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Are hybrid and ancestral wines on the rise?
A handful of growers are quietly bringing a new set of wines to market...
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Provence winemakers share grapes in climate response
'Provence Rouge' share grapes to make a wine...
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Caudalie to open Loire vineyard hotel
The third hotel...
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'Prime' English vineyard sites identified - study
Thousands of hectares identified by university researchers...
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Devastating floods hit Languedoc vineyard region
Winemakers assess the damage...
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Angélus co-owner de Boüard 'certain of innocence' in St-Emilion dispute
Court opens investigation into de Boüard and Castéjà but both deny wrongdoing...
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Police investigate attack on Cos d'Estournel 'Zanzibar door'
Police investigate as estate condemns act...
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Bordeaux châteaux test algae to fight mildew
Ten estates in Bordeaux and Cognac involved...
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Police seize Bordeaux châteaux owned by Chinese firm
Ten Bordeaux estates confiscated by police...
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Suduiraut has lucky escape from fire
Seventy firefighters called out...
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Top 10 things to see and do at La Cité du Vin
A must-visit attraction for tourists in Bordeaux....
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Best Bordeaux hotels: Where to stay
Wine lovers choosing to visit Bordeaux are increasingly spoiled for choice...
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Petrus to launch counter-appeal against name ruling
Pomerol estate to appeal after seeing previous win overturned...
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Invest to beat climate change and eat less meat, winemakers told
Miguel Torres Snr and Obama adviser at Vinexpo...
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Police stopped CRAV wine activists headed for Bordeaux - report
Sabotage plan foiled...
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Wine leather: What you could be wearing next season
Milan entrepreneur turns wine into leather...
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New iceless ice bucket pitched as luxury must-have
Is it worth the price tag? Judge for yourself...
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Bordeaux châteaux restaurants to visit
Where to eat in the Bordeaux vineyards...
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US start-up announces 'Wifi wine bottle' with touch-screen
Have you ever wished you could cross your smartphone with a wine bottle? A start-up firm in the US says it has launched a wifi-enabled wine bottle.
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Fake Bordeaux in China being made on offshore boats, says official
At least half the Chateau Lafite sold in China is fake and, like other high end Bordeaux counterfeits, probably made on boats moored in international waters off the mainland coast, a senior Chinese government official has said.
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Medoc official complains at unfair tax breaks for 'corporate' chateaux
An official in Bordeaux has risked the ire of some chateaux owners by saying a tax break meant for small-scale producers should be closed to estates controlled by corporate firms and wealthy families.
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Pensioner fakes death to avoid EUR50,000 wine bill
A French pensioner who pretended he was dead to avoid paying tens of thousands of euros in unpaid wine bills has been sentenced to 18 months of electronic cuff surveillance, with 10 months suspended.
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French winemaker fined for smuggling illegal pesticides
A winemaker in southern France has narrowly escaped prison after being found guilty of smuggling banned pesticides into the country.
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Toxic smoke damages Leoville Las Cases 2013 harvest
Bordeaux's Chateau Léoville Las Cases has had to write-off a portion of its 2013 harvest after vines were unwittingly polluted by smoke from a neighbouring estate.
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Sauternes producer says tenth of 2013 harvest stolen
A Sauternes wine producer has said it has lost a tenth of its normal grape haul after they were harvested overnight by someone else.
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Second Bordeaux storm destroys 4,000ha costing '20million Euros at the very least'
Bordeaux's main white wine growing region, Entre-deux-Mers, has been hit by a massive hailstorm damaging about 4,000 hectares of vines with many producers losing almost their entire crop.
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India tax cut 'will not create boom'
The chance that India's government might slash taxes on European wine imports will make little difference, experts are warning, because states will continue to set their own taxes.
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Helicopter row highlights fungicide use in Bordeaux
A dispute over the use of helicopters for spraying in Bordeaux has shone an unwelcome light on use of chemical treatments in wine production.
