French winemakers threaten to block Tour de France after Chilean wine chosen as sponsor - Winemakers are up in arms about Chile's Bicicleta being sponsor of the race, claiming it is "unacceptable"
Drinks with the girls: Australian women and wine - Beer may be central to Australia’s sense of national identity, but it’s the not the country’s most popular alcoholic beverage: that honour goes to wine. While 37.6% of Australian adults drank beer in any given four-week period last year, 45.1% drank wine. And the primary reason for wine’s dominance over beer? The number of Aussie women who drink it. During 2015, 4.6 million Australian women 18+ (or 49.0% of the adult female population) drank some kind of wine – white, red, sparkling and/or fortified – in an average four weeks, compared to 3.7 million of men (41.2%). White wine, consumed by 69.3% of female wine drinkers over this time period, wins out over red wine (56.3%), sparkling (42.3%) and fortified (9.3%).
A $20 Billion Megaproject's Key Ingredient: The Luxury Food Court: The path to success for massive urban development leads through your stomach - Once upon a time, mall operators depended on retail anchors to attract shoppers. Increasingly, they’re using restaurants to draw foot traffic through their halls.
Herring Headache: The Big Obstacles To Eating Small Fish In California - "People want to eat fish that doesn't have any flavor, and they don't want to deal with bones." Chefs and seafood advocates around the world are trying to change this. Last March, 20 star chefs gathered in Spain to discuss the environmental virtues of eating what many still call "bait fish" and ways to promote these species – including anchovies, sardines, mackerel and herring – as culinary attractions.
How Millennials (Almost) Killed the Wine Cork - A new generation of wine drinkers came of age with screw caps and plastic bottle stoppers, but cork producers are mounting a campaign to win their loyalty
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How Kazakhstan Is Becoming The Next Frontier For World-Class Wine - After traveling through the great wine producing regions of Europe, Zeinulla Kakimzhanov had an idea: why not revive wine culture in Kazakhstan? Knowing that his country once had a great wine tradition, he formed a cooperative, pursued investors, and began cultivating 70 hectares of forgotten vineyards near the village of Karakemer, in the Assa Valley just outside of Almaty, Kazakhstan’s most dynamic and populated city. Kakimzhanov called his new winery Arba Wine, and high-end wine began being produced in Kazakhstan once again.
Filling Fino’s shoes at Willunga - Le Mistral has bravely taken up the space occupied for 10 years by revered restaurant Fino at Willunga, but new owners Tarik and Sandrine Maltret are not seeking to replicate it.
How Pompeii brought ancient Roman wine back to life - Made from ancient grape varieties grown in Pompeii, 'Villa dei Misteri' has to be one of the world's most exclusive wines. The grapes are planted in exactly the same position, grown using identical techniques and grow from the same soil the city's wine-makers exploited until Vesuvius buried the city and its inhabitants in AD 79.
