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A narrow flight of stairs leads up to a well-appointed room in a colonial building in the banking district where moneyed Singaporeans gather regularly to discuss investment opportunities. But they don't talk about shares, derivatives, commodities or property. Instead, they sip fine ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Sancerre is arguably the most well known white wine of France's Loire Valley, the benchmark sauvignon blanc appellation by which other examples of the variety in France - and throughout the world - are judged. New Zealand ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) - The analogy of David and Goliath seemed fitting for this vinous account as many are familiar with the legend and the substance of message in the outcome. Metaphorically speaking, The Valley of Elah is Singapore. The Israelites David ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - As the prices trickled out for the first tranche of the 2009 Bordeaux vintage being sold en primeurs, there was shock and awe. They had doubled and, in some cases, tripled what had been asked for the ...

You know times have changed when French wine promoters, bruised by competition from "New World" wines, say they have to think more "like Coca-Cola". The sector has started fighting back with the New World upstarts' own weapon -- dropping complex regional labelling ...

You know times have changed when French wines, bruised by competition from the "New World", fight back with the upstarts' own weapon -- dropping complex regional labeling for the plain old grape name. Even the staunchest of Gallic wine lovers now order ...

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Topic: Europe

Liquid Singaporeans investing in fine wines

Salvaging of shipwrecked champagne begins in Baltic

Europe puts cork in Australian 'Champagne'

Vine talk: Not all wines get better with age

Celebrity architects take on blue-chip French wines

Vine Talk: Enjoying the world's best sauvignon blancs

Vine Talk: Can David slay Goliath in the world's vineyards?

Vine Talk: Tired of surging Bordeaux prices? Let the tour begin

French wines' new export strategy: think "Coca-Cola"

Times of change for French wines' export strategy

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