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“The Dom Pérignon of Rosés”

Have a sip of Garrus, the world’s most expensive Rosé wine.

France

French wine production could hit 'historic low' after April's cold spell

France's 2017 win production could hit a 'historic low' after harvests were hit by a cold snap in Spring.

United Kingdom

Diageo buys Geroge Clooney's tequila company for $1 billion

Diageo buys Geroge Clooney's tequila company for $1 billion

Cult

Next stop drunkenness? The bar where beer arrives on a train

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Mexico

G+T x 300 = Record

Record-breaking bartenders prove their skills in Mexico City.

Living

Berlin Heaven Scent

The world's first cocktail bar dedicated to the art of combining cocktails and perfumes.

World News

Russian dinner party turns deadly

Nine peopleshot dead following dinner party dispute.

Germany

Festival's beer pipeline set to be music to the ears of metalheads

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'Trump' beer on sale in Ukraine

A craft brewery in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv has begun producing a new type of beer devoted to the 45th president of the United States.

World News

Which EU state is the world's heaviest-drinking country?

Lithuanians are the world’s heaviest drinkers and their boozing is showing no signs of slowing, new data reveals.

Hungary

The ruin bars of Budapest

The vivid and pulsing downtown party zone of Budapest exhibits how a city can transform over a half a century.

USA

A hangover cure that actually works?

Two students at Yale University say they have developed a hangover-prevention supplement that actually works.

Business Series

Battle for the bottle: cork fights back

Cork producers turn to high tech to win back customers who changed to screw caps and plastic stoppers.

Canada

Canada orders recall of too-strong Bombay Sapphire gin

Canadian liquor authorities are recalling bottles of Bombay Sapphire after it was revealed they contained nearly double the amount of alcohol.

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Pope Benedict XVI toasts his 90th birthday with a pint

Pope Emeritus Benedict celebrated his 90th birthday on Monday (April 17) in the garden of his residence in the Vatican.

Economy

Less wine, more money

Less wine was produced around the world last year the International Organisation of Vine and Wine says, but the value of sales rose.

Russia

Death toll in Russian mass alcohol poisoning climbs to 58

Mass alcohol poisoning has killed at least 58 people in Russia and hospitalised dozens.

Japan

Bathing in Beaujolais!

Why just drink it, when you can also bathe in it?

Israel

The Palestinian Territories' 'delicious' one and only brewery faces constant adversity

Milk and honey are not the only things that flow from the olive tree-peppered hills of Ramallah. There is also beer.

Cuba

US-Cuba: Obama lifts limits on rum and cigars

It is a parting gift from President Obama to US tourists in Cuba.