Jefford accepted his award at the V d’Or Business Awards ceremony having been called to the stage by none other than pop superstar Kylie Minogue. In introducing Jefford, Minogue revealed that she had turned to him for advice when she was first considering launching her own wine range. ‘I was very nervous ahead of our …
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This week we break down how wine quietly dodged strict alcohol limits in the new U.S. dietary guidelines, why Idaho’s Snake River Valley is gaining serious m…
New Zealand wine stands at a fork in the road. One path leads towards corporate behemoths churning out industrial quantities of mass-market Sauvignon Blanc; the other features increasingly refined, site-specific wines across a range of styles that compete with the world’s very best. Which will it be? In this New Zealand Wines of the Year …
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Bourbon might be referred to as “America’s Native Spirit,” but rye is actually the country’s first whiskey, with distillation predating that of bourbon by several decades. The grain first arrived in the United States in the early 1600s with Dutch and English colonists who settled in the Northeast. Rye’s resistance to disease and drought, not …
“Have you tried the Bombardino yet?” my ski guide for the day asks in his charming Italian accent. I haven’t, though menus and handwritten signs promoting the drink appear everywhere I look, tucked inside warm “rifugi” and the sun-drenched slopeside restaurants the Dolomites are famous for. Our ski group has just reconvened after a demanding …
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The sale of Four Roses Bourbon to Gallo suggests Japanese owners might be losing faith in American whiskey.
With hundreds of millions of bottles produced every year, the global whiskey industry is enormous, valued at approximately $28 billion. While production is led by countries like Scotland and the United States — both of which produce whiskey in a number of styles — Irish, Japanese, and other world whiskeys are popular in their own …
A Spanish soccer player enjoyed an enviable few bottles while watching the game on TV with friends.
Wine isn’t just a beverage in Israel and Palestine – it’s also another front in the unending battle between the two polities.