Drinking natural wine in Paris and other news and views

• Paris' Hidden, 'Natural' Wine Bars and Restaurants - Most of the producers are small and often they have no appellation, no official region of origin, so you can’t even see where they come from. They prefer to be “outside of the system”. They are often classified as “vin de France”, meaning they can hypothetically (although not in practice) come from anywhere in France. Or maybe their wines, not being very traditional, were not approved by the appellation inspectors and therefore are sold as vin de France.
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• Barossa chef and wine maker to represent Australia at United States food festival - Barossa food and wine makers will head to the United States next month, after being invited to the MidAtlantic Wine + Food Festival in Delaware. Over the May weekend, Australia will be represented by chef Owen Andrews, and winemaker Warren Randall, both from the Barossa Valley in South Australia.
• Bali tourist areas exempt from beer ban - The Trade Ministry’s new regulation on alcoholic beverages, scheduled to take full effect on Thursday, will not be enforced on Bali as the ministry has decided that tourism areas would be exempted from the ban.On Thursday minimarkets, small vendors and beachside beverage vendors across the country were to stop selling beer. Bali administrations, retail associations and vendors had expressed opposition against the beer ban
• The Jakarta Post | Editorial - Stop drinking? - Simple solutions are appealing, a fact that politicians here and everywhere know well. As such, it has not only been moralists pushing for legal instruments to regulate behavior at the local and national levels. The latest evidence is a bill that seeks to ban liquor, which has received backing from almost all political parties that control the House of Representatives. It is appealing to millions of citizens concerned over violent drunks and long-term excessive consumption of liquor. Though we share the concerns, which, along with smoking, contribute to the ruin of poor families, we oppose the bill, which is driven not only by the Islamist political parties.
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