This year's Beaujolais Nouveau wine, produced in the Bourgogne region of France, went on sale in Japan on Thursday. While the excitement surrounding the release has subsided in recent years compared with the bubble economy era in the late 1980s, the start of sales of ...
A dozen bottles of fine French wine arrived at the International Space Station on Monday, not for the astronauts, but for science. The red Bordeaux wine will age for a year up there before returning to Earth. Researchers will study how weightlessness and space radiation ...
Trump's tariffs on European wine and cheese look to dash holiday hopes of small U.S. retailers
The tariffs the Trump administration is about to impose on wine, liquor and cheese from Europe couldn't come at a worse time for small retailers. "It's kind of scary in the sense that we're getting to the holiday season," says Joseph Kakos, owner of Kakos ...
'We feel hijacked': U.S. duties on French wine are bad news for all, exporters say
The U.S. decision to impose tariffs on French wines will penalize American consumers who will see a sharp rise in prices while severely hurting French producers on their largest export market, exporters said on Thursday. The United States has said it will impose 25 percent ...
U.S. may ease bottle rules for Japanese alcohol as part of trade negotiations
Tokyo and Washington are in the final stage of talks over an easing of the United States' regulations on bottles for alcoholic beverages imported from Japan, under an envisioned trade pact between the two countries, it was learned Tuesday. The U.S. currently sets seven sizes, ...
To your (gut) health: Red wine could be good for digestive system
Red, red wine, goes to my ... gut? A study by a team of scientists from King's College London has found that red wine drinkers had a greater diversity of bacteria in their digestive tracts, which is a marker of gastrointestinal health, compared to those ...
Spring frosts, hail and heat wave put dent in French wine output
French wine production will fall 12 percent this year after vines were damaged by spring frosts, drought and hail, but quality will remain generally good, the agriculture ministry said on Tuesday. In its second estimate for 2019, the ministry forecast production of 43.4 million hectolitres, ...
Macron defuses French digital tax row, but Trump stays coy on wine threat
France and the United States reached a deal to end a standoff over a French tax on big internet companies, though U.S. President Donald Trump declined to say whether his threat of a retaliatory wine tax was off the table as a result. The compromise ...
World-class white wines in the shadow of Mount Fuji
Inside a 19th century silk merchant's house in Katsunuma, Yamanashi Prefecture, the three Aruga brothers are pouring several white wines in their timbered tasting room. All are made at their Katsunuma Jyozo Winery Co. under the Aruga Branca label from Japan's unique grape variety, ...
Trump says U.S. could tax French wine in retaliation for digital tax on tech giants
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to tax French wines on Friday in retaliation for France's recent proposal to levy a tax aimed at big U.S. technology companies. Trump had told French President Emmanuel Macron last week that he was concerned about the proposed digital services ...
Wine-tasters in France learn many aspects of trade — spitting included
Spitting is frowned upon in polite society — unless of course the spitter is engaged in tasting wines. "It's by spitting out the wine that you will be even more distinguished in society," pleads Pierre-Jules Peyrat, a Paris sommelier. Holding forth before a rapt crowd at ...
The heat wave that is roasting parts of Europe is more than welcome in the French region of Bordeaux, where wine producers say a sudden intense burst of sun after a wet spring could produce a superior vintage. "Two of three days of heat wave ...
