Red wine and beef are natural pairing partners and now a farmer in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley is feeding her cattle red wine for the last 90 days before slaughter. Janice Ravndahl of Sezmu Meats stumbled on the idea while watching world-renowned chef Gordon Ramsey feed beer to pigs on the British food magazine and [...]

Divers exploring a shipwreck near the Åland Islands in the Baltic Sea (between Sweden and Finland) discovered a trove of Champagne bottles – perfectly preserved because of the dark and cold conditions for over 200 years. Bringing one to the surface, Christian Ekstrom opened one and tasted it with his fellow divers. “It had a [...]

The rising use of screw caps and plastic stoppers for wine bottles over the past fifteen years has caused much grumbling from the French, with 9 out of 10 French people polled preferring the traditional stopper. In fact, France’s cork federation is going on the offensive with a poster campaign that features wine and champagne [...]