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No doubt about it, the Napa Valley can be expensive. Hundred- dollar bottle of wine? They've got it. Thousand-a-night hotel suite? Right this way. But there are vine values to be found if you know where to look. Want to glide up a mountain by gondola ...

An Israeli settler in the West Bank who produces world-class kosher wine has welcomed the resumption of direct peace talks in Washington, even though he knows he must abandon his vines if they succeed. "Dialogue is always better than bloodshed. If a peace deal is reached, I will inevitably be one of its victims. It will be painful, but I ...

Work to salvage around 70 bottles of two-century-old champagne found in a shipwreck at the bottom of the Baltic Sea has begun, an official of the autonomous Finnish Aaland islands said Tuesday. "Taking everything into account it seems that we are currently salvaging the oldest champagne in the world," Rainer Juslin, the permanent secretary of the Aaland government's education ...

Australian wine-makers must stop using prestigious names such as Champagne, Port or Sherry on their bottles under a major deal with Europe which comes into force on Wednesday. Under the agreement, Australia will obtain easier access to the 27-nation European Union, a market worth 643 million euros (815 million US dollars) in exports for the country last year. Australia now ...

After being on his feet for three hours hosting the Emmy Awards, Jimmy Fallon couldn't sit down. He stayed upright accepting hugs and congratulations from a steady stream of well-wishers Sunday night at the post-show Governors Ball, including Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and ...

Western Canadian beef producers have found a novel way of putting the "bar" in barbecue. Angus cattle in British Columbia's Okanagan wine and cattle region are being fed red wine with their grain. Chefs in this Canadian Pacific Coast province said it makes for a ...

Researchers in northern India say they have developed a wine made from mangoes that they hope might one day compete with the traditional grape-based variety. Scientists at the Central Institute of Subtropical Horticultural Research in Lucknow have produced wines using three types of mango native to the local state of Uttar Pradesh -- the Dussehri, Langra, and Chausa. India is the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - You probably know, or think you know, that fine wine gets better with age. But how do you know that? It is probably not by tasting a large number of fine wines of various vintages. Instead, you're just taking it on trust, often from the kind of wine snobs who will sniff and swirl and ...

The wines produced at Domaine Du Castel near Jerusalem have turned the world of Kosher wine on its head, winning accolades from around the world, and now this small, family-owned winery has set its sites on the broader market. A long climb through the winding hills to the southwest of Jerusalem leads to the vineyards of Tzuba, a nearby kibbutz ...

A metamorphosis is underway across France's legendary Bordeaux vineyards. The land that turns out grand cru wine is hardly the usual setting for giant construction cranes. Yet top world architects, from Christian de Portzampac to Jean Nouvel, are redesigning some of the world's most hallowed cellars in the region. At Chateau Cheval Blanc, Pritzker prize-winner de Portzampac has ...