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Australian scientists have discovered that they can control grape ripening by using steroids. Australia’s national science agency, found that applying brassinosteroids to grape skins speeded up the ripening of the grapes.
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Banrock Station has introduced a lower-alcohol red wine to the UK. Crimson Cabernet Sauvignon arrives here, following its successful launch in Australia, with only nine per cent alcohol by volume.
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Drinking moderate amounts of the red wine Cabernet Sauvignon may help reduce the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease.
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A survey by the world’s biggest wine competition has shown that screwcaps can taint wine.
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Two big Aussie brands are undergoing changes designed to broaden their appeal. Rosemount, the brand that four years ago was the biggest-selling wine in Australia, has seen sales drop globally by nearly a quarter
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A new study now suggests that white wine might be just as good. Previous research put the grapes’ heart-healthy benefits down to antioxidant compounds primarily found in their skins but not normally associated with white wines.
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One English wine grower has found a way around the vagaries of our weather by putting his vines under glass.
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China, the 11th largest wine producer in the world, is to start making ice wine.
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A robot that can ‘taste’ wine has been developed by researchers in Japan
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Threshers has launched a season of country festivals accompanied by leaflets to help consumers understand more about the wines they are buying.
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If only the weather had been as dry for this year’s English Wine and Regional Food Festival as the winning wine of the show was!
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If only the weather had been as dry for this year’s English Wine and Regional Food Festival as the winning wine of the show was!
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Australian scientists are aiming to build an electronic nose that can objectively measure the aroma and flavour of grapes and wine.
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Following the success of Sideways, comes a new movie with a wine theme – this time set in France. Directed by Ridley Scott, A Good Year stars Russell Crowe and Albert Finney.
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The laborious Mosel-Saar-Ruwer is going to become simply ‘Mosel’ from the 2007 vintage. The change comes after years of lobbying by the region’s growers’ organisation.
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Chateau Musar harvested a vineyard before the ceasefire in Lebanon. Local villagers helped rescue one of Musar’s trial vineyards in the Bekaa Valley.
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Tesco intends to put more fine wine into more of its stores.
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Zinfandel looks set to become California’s official state grape. A legislative bill proclaiming it as the sunshine state’s ‘historic wine’ and is now awaiting Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s signature.
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Consumers can take advantage of some great-quality Australian wine at very reasonable prices right now as a result of companies being able to buy grapes cheaper than they could a couple of years ago.
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Oddbins is abandoning all price promotions on single bottles of wine from this week, but is pricing down 350 of its wines instead.
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Oz Clarke is taking a road trip through France’s vineyards with Top Gear’s James May for a new BBC series to be screened this autumn, called Oz and James’s Big Wine Adventure.
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It’s now the turn of Sherry to get the fruity treatment. Harveys Orange, which hits the shops this month, is a blend of Bristol Cream infused with orange
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In the UK we’re wasting the equivalent of 87 million bottles of wine every year just because we don’t store it properly. That means a whopping £3.5 billion of spoilt wine.
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Drinkers who live in the North of England are more likely to binge on alcohol and die younger than their southern counterparts.
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The French are finally taking on the New World with a range of simply-labelled, branded wines which are based on single grape varieties rather than locality.
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Britain’s first all-organic wine shop Organico, is located in the Lake District, offering over 150 organic wines.
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The war in Lebanon could have serious implications for the Lebanese wine industry. With vineyards in the fighting zone, harvest time looming and the problem of getting wine out to their important export markets.
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Constellation, one of the biggest wine companies in the world has allegedly been trying to boost sales figures by getting staff to buy bottles on expenses in a bid to secure a lucrative contract with the JD Wetherspoon pub chain.
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UK wine producers have given their backing to the European Commission’s draft reforms for the European wine sector following a recent meeting in Brussels. Under the new proposals there would be no limit on planting, nor on the amount of wine we can produc
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Chateau Petrus has broken the record price for not-yet-bottled Bordeaux as buyers are coughing up £20,000 to get hold of cases of the 2005.
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English sparkling wine scooped a sensational 10 awards at the International Wine & Spirit Competition.
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The current heatwave may be too much of a good thing for some of us, but the sunshine is great news for our grape growing.
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A recent report has found that, as drinkers, we want three things from our closures, the most important of which is that they’re easy to open.
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Wine aromas aren’t the same for everyone and are possibly as unique to each person as a fingerprint.
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Scientists in Italy say they’ve discovered that the grapes used for making some red wines contain high levels of the sleep hormone melatonin.
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It was game, set up and snatch during the Wimbledon tennis championships when 300 crates of Champagne Lanson worth more than £90,000 were stolen.
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In the battle of the brands, Hardys has beaten off competition from Blossom Hill to be the top take-home wine in the UK. E & J Gallo wasn’t too far behind, taking the third slot in our wine racks, according to the latest top 10 tables of the most popular
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Esk Valley Estate The Terraces has been sold for what is possibly a record-breaking price for a bottle of New Zealand wine.
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Russian wine fans are having to forego their favourite foreign wine after a bureaucratic blunder has left restaurants and off-licences virtually empty of bottles. The problem arose after new excise stamps, which are compulsory on all alcohol imported into
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Chateaux Margaux and Latour are clocking up the most expensive prices ever for Bordeaux wine sold en primeur at more than £4000 a case. As a result of the 2005 vintage being hailed as one of the greatest ever.
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Nyetimber has taken the top award for the fourth year running in The English and Welsh Wine of the Year Competition. While Chapel Down won Best Red Wine, Best Varietal Wine and Best Wine of Other Year’s Vintage, while its English Rose 2005 won Best Rosé a
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More of us are opting to stay at home and enjoy a glass or two rather than go out to the pub, according to recent research. Sales of wine to be drunk on a night in now account for 64 per cent of the market.
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This year’s port crop has been hit by a heavy hailstorm. Initially, it was thought that up to 80 per cent of the crop in the Douro’s vineyards had been decimated, but top port producers have said that losses are now less than predicted.
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It was a right royal celebration for English wine company RidgeView last week when its sparkling wine was chosen to toast the Queen’s 80th birthday at a lunch at London’s Mansion House. The company’s Merret Grosvenor 2001, made from Chardonnay grapes, was
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Last week was no summer holiday for Sir Cliff Richard when celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey duped him into rubbishing his own wine.
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Australia's Sales to China have soared by 482 per cent in the past year, according to figures released by the Australian Wine & Brandy Corporation.
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England as grape growing is set to increase enormously. This year alone well over 120 hectares of vines have gone into the ground and this is just the start of a big expansion plan by the major UK players.
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Sales of the £6 to £7 bottles of wine were up 27 per cent in supermarkets in the past year, making it the fastest-growing price band in the UK.
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