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Hong Kong and mainland China are developing a strong thirst for wine, and Washington and Oregon are hoping for a taste of those growing markets. So far, only a trickle of Northwest wines make it to Asian countries outside of Japan. But experts ...

The graceful farm is like any other in South Africa's wine country, with a cosy restaurant and tasting room circled by mountains and rows of trellised grape vines. But Thandi Wines is one of the few black-owned operations in a high-end business that like most commercial agriculture is still predominantly white-owned 16 years after the end of apartheid minority ...

(Robert Whitley is the publisher and managing partner of wine website Wine Review Online http://www.winereviewonline.com and the host of an online radio show "Whitley on Wine." He also oversees several international wine competition. The opinions expressed are his own). By Robert Whitley NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - It has been centuries since residents of the walled Tuscan city ...

Ordering wine by the glass used to mean scant choices and bland options. And only your tastebuds would tell you how long the wine had languished in an open bottle. That's changed, with restaurants amping up the volume on what's available by the glass and making sure that the ...

Eyeing up a highly lucrative new market, Australia's Barossa Valley this week played host to 600 young "wine ambassadors" emblematic of China's booming middle class. Employees of global beverages giant Pernod Ricard, the group were brought to Australia for a crash course in appreciating a wine range specially developed for the Chinese palate, Jacob's Creek's "Winemaker ...

The days of bad Bordeaux are numbered after a decision from the region's wine supremos to drastically cut production of lower-end bottles of the wine. Unveiling a strategy here this week, Bordeaux's wine trade council (CIVB) decided to increase overall production by 12 percent while reducing the current 1.1 million hectolitre production of so-called "Basic Bordeaux". These ...

Bordeaux wine supremos have ordered a cut in the amount of cheap plonk put on the market and the amount of land used for growing but are aiming to increase production. Bordeaux's wine trade council, the CIVB, decided this week to increase overall production by 12 percent while reducing the current 1.1 million hectolitre production of so-called "Basic ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Roger Lowenstein, in "The End of Wall Street," his book about the financial crisis, tells a story about Vikram Pandit, the former hedge fund manager and now Citigroup's CEO. Pandit was lunching at legendary New York fish restaurant Le Bernadin, says Lowenstein, and, looking at the wine list, saw nothing by the glass that appealed ...

Divers have discovered what is thought to be the world's oldest drinkable champagne, fishing a bottle of the centuries-old bubbly from a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea. Dive instructor Christian Ekstrom says the champagne, believed to be from the 1780's, "tasted fantastic ...

BORDEAUX, France (Reuters Life!) - Prices for Bordeaux 2009 vintage wine that has not yet even been bottled look set to top those from the last classic year of 2005 thanks to demand from wealthy Chinese buyers and speculators. Prices straight from the producer have already reached 1,000 euros ($1,282) per bottle for exceptionally fine wines, according to the ...