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Ice Wine
What could be more enchanting than the delicate nectar known as Vin de Glace, Eiswein or Ice Wine (depending on where you’re from) made by gently juicing the small frozen grapes found in the early morning. Let’s take a trip to a place where the cold is soothing.

Aging wine...
When do we drink wine? A great deal has been published recently about drinking patterns in Europe. While the English youth are binge drinking like never before, the French young are abandoning their national heritage and avoiding wine altogether.

Screw caps
Time was, no self respecting wine would be seen without a cork – unless it was sold on an airline. Now, everyone is leaping on the screw cap bandwagon, and the Marlborough district of New Zealand, for example, sells its great Sauvignon Blanc only in screw cap. What is this closure and what’s in it for us?

Organic
The wine grape growing industry has largely converted to synthetic chemical treatments. Many vintners are now turning away from the excessive use of these products in favour of environmental friendly growing practices.

Wine and rugby: two worlds which resemble each other
How can we relate the two worlds of wine and rugby which are, apparently, so very different? And is this just pure opportunism, in the light of the 2007 Rugby World Cup being played in France, one of the world’s leading wine producers?