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Rising alcohol levels give wine lovers a headache

Agence France-PresseMay 1, 2013 23:00

Do those New World Cabernets and Zinfandels make your head spin? Fed up with having to stop drinking after just one glass? Plenty of wine lovers around the world will have noticed their favourite tipples are getting stronger, and many of them are unhappy about the hangovers that come with increased alcohol levels. But it seems they have only themselves to blame as experts say that changing consumer tastes are mainly responsible for driving the trend.

Climate change rewrites world wine list

Agence France-PresseMarch 26, 2013 00:30

It's circa 2050 and shoppers are stopping off at Ikea to buy fine wine made in Sweden. A Nordic fantasy? Not according to climate experts who say the Earth's warming phase is already driving a wave of change through the world of wine. As new frontiers for grape growing open up, the viability of some traditional production areas is under threat from scorching temperatures and prolonged droughts.

Frozen grapes gathered under stars make Canada's icewine

Thomson ReutersJanuary 22, 2013 13:16

Malivoire, one of the Niagara region's boutique wineries, picks its icewine grapes by hand. For this annual rite of winter it relies on a corps of more than a dozen volunteers, selected by a lottery, to get the grapes off the vine and crushed at just the right moment.

Frozen grapes gathered under stars make Canada's icewine

Thomson ReutersJanuary 22, 2013 12:00

* Province of Ontario produces most of Canada's icewine * Canadian specialty costs twice as much as Champagne * Harvest takes place in dead of night By Atsuko Kitayama BEAMSVILLE, Ontario, Jan 22 (Reuters) - In the Ontario town of Beamsville, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of Niagara Falls, a small crowd of bundled-up figures crouched in a moonlit vineyard on a frigid January night, picking a crop of hard-frozen Gewurztraminer grapes.