PARIS (Reuters) - China has become the biggest export market for Bordeaux wines outside the European Union as overall exports have collapsed due to the economic crisis and a strong euro put some wines beyond U.S. and British buyers. The sector has high hopes of the 2009 harvest with young wines being presented to the international trade and specialized journalists ...

A former British MEP pleaded guilty on Thursday to fiddling 36,000 pounds in expenses by diverting cash intended for his secretary and using it to buy fine wines and a car. Tom Wise, 61, who was elected to the European Parliament for UKIP (the UK Independent Party) in 2004 before turning independent, now faces jail after he reversed his ...

A former British MEP pleaded guilty on Thursday to fiddling 36,000 pounds in expenses by diverting cash intended for his secretary and using it to buy fine wines and a car. Tom Wise, 61, who was elected to the European Parliament for UKIP (the UK Independent Party) in 2004 before turning independent, now faces jail after he reversed his ...

MARSEILLE, France (Reuters Life!) - Provence is up in arms against a pending rule change that would allow rose wine to be made by simply blending white wine with red. The southern French region is the cradle of rose wine, a variety fast gaining international popularity. Rose wines can in fact vary in color from a shade of pink to bright ...

An overwhelming majority of French consumers are opposed to an EU scheme to allow a blend of red and white wines to be sold as rose, according to a poll to be published on Sunday. The poll found 87 percent of those polled were against the plan, and the rejection was across the board, with no difference between men and ...

Blended, bled or crushed? Rose wine customers will get to know exactly how their grapes were treated to turn their tipple a blushing pink under new EU rules laid out Wednesday. The European Commission said it would lift a ban on blending red and white ...

The European Union and Australia signed Monday a new trade agreement that will better protect EU wine labelling and ease the certification of Australian wines entering the 27-nation bloc. Under the deal, the most comprehensive such accord concluded with a non-EU country, Australia will end the "misuse" of terms like Champagne, Port and Burgundy, which are tied to geographical locations ...

The European Union and Australia signed an agreement Monday that will protect such European names as "Champagne" in Australia while further opening European markets to wines from Down Under. The deal will give geographical indicators like that of the famous French bubbly, along with Portugal's "Porto" and ...