The Cold Wine of the Vikings

Last month, we talked about prohibition. It was the famous US ban on importing, selling, buying, and, ultimately, drinking alcohol that was behind the creation of the most famous of fizzy drinks. Let's not beat about the bush: before...

We’ve lost count of space-related events. Following on from the ambition to plant vines on Mars (and drown our sorrows in wine), someone now wants to send the finest of wines into the void of space. There is a...

What is there to brag about? Italy finds itself at the head of a ranking whose wording is rather questionable and convoluted ... The article itself acknowledges that there is nothing to crow about: France is still the country...

All Wines Lead to Rome Although the prestigious Roman civilization was not where wine originated and it did not even play a major part in the initial spread of wine throughout Gaul, then the supposed capital of clan drunkenness, Rome...

Although we can thank the English for having been able to sell French wine worldwide (and for having cleverly informed the rest of the planet that there was only one wine on earth that was worthwhile ... in exchange...