Friday, November 20, 2015

Arras Blanc de Blanc wins the national wine prize and other food and drink news


Award-winning Tasmanian sparkling wine makes history - A Tasmanian sparkling wine has made history by being named Champion Wine at the National Wine Show of Australia. It is the first time a sparkling wine has won the overall champion title, taking out the Len Evans Memorial Trophy for Champion Wine of Show. The winning drop, a 2006 House of Arras blanc de blanc, is a 100 per cent chardonnay wine.

US approves genetically modified salmon for food - US regulators have given the go-ahead to genetically modified salmon, making it the first GM animal destined for human consumption.
The Food and Drug Administration said it had given approval on the grounds that "food from the fish is safe to eat".

The transgenic salmon is a type of Atlantic salmon injected with a gene from Pacific Chinook salmon to make it grow faster.

A Grieving France Celebrates A Subdued Beaujolais Nouveau Day

Ombud: Ladies’ nights ‘unfair to men’
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Ombud: Ladies’ nights ‘unfair to men’ - Austria’s Ombud for Equal Treatment has ruled that Ladies’ Nights - where nightclubs and bars offer women free admission and cheap drinks on certain evenings - discriminate against men.

World gets taste for paella thanks to brilliant Spanish emoji campaign
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World gets taste for paella thanks to brilliant Spanish emoji campaign - The Spanish Advertising Association has announced the most successful adverts of the year and one, more than any other, captured not only the spirit of Spain but the new method of advertising sweeping the country. The campaign for a paella emoji was launched by La Fallera rice, a popular brand of Spanish rice typically used in paella, the Valencian dish lauded as one of Spain’s most typical.

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