A recent survey conducted by DialAFLight suggests that frequent travellers are heavily reliant on alcohol to get them through flights. The research shows that 53% of people have drunk more than two units while waiting to board a plane, whilst a third have been drunk on a plane.

A new pro-wine lobby with a budget of some €2m has been created to counter the effects of the French government's 'vilifying' of wine.

As the Champagne price war hots up, Tesco has asked suppliers to find it 300,000 bottles it can sell for £10 each, and Bollinger can be had for a song.

A French company is set to launch a TV channel dedicated to French and international wine culture - when only months ago the government was considering making it illegal to discuss wine in the media.

Wine Future Rioja, held 12-13 November in Logroño, focused upon a range of topics of great importance during this current world economic crises. Speaker and moderator Jancis Robinson MW summed up that, "this is the best assembly of the wine trade I've ever experienced."

The "Life Goes Better with Bordeaux" campaign brings together easy to understand wine information with real time where-to-buy details, food pairing suggestions, helpful tips, events around the country, and live online chats with wine experts with the goal of putting Bordeaux wines in the glasses of consumers.

The France Food and Drink Report provides industry professionals and strategists, corporate analysts, food and drink associations, government departments and regulatory bodies with independent forecasts and competitive intelligence on France's food and drink industry.

Majestic changed its trading strategy this autumn, lowering the minimum customer purchase requirement from 12 to six bottles

Bordeaux on Thursday unveiled plans for a 55-million euro wine cultural centre that Mayor Alain Juppe says will act as a platform for developing wine tourism in southwest France.

Bordeaux is in crisis and needs a radical restructure, according to one of the region's biggest exporters. The system is failing all but the biggest and richest producers, Matthieu Chardronier, managing director of negociants CVBG Dourthe said at the Winefuture conference in Rioja.

According to a new study by Wrap, a government agency, the British are throwing out £470M ($752M ) worth of wine every year. That's a lot of wine!

English wine has enjoyed a vintage year, but the industry has much to learn. Now the Government is pouring £1.6m into classes

Italian wine producer Piero Antonori launched on Thursday, Nov 5th, at the headquarters of Italian ambassador to Bucharest, the first wine resulted from the crop of the vineyard planted in 2007, in the Dealu Mare region , in southern Romania.

Every road was filled with trucks carrying grapes and juice (they generally press close to the vineyards rather than transporting the grapes very far) and busses filled with the picking crews. Roadsides were crowded with cars, trucks and picking equipment.

It is the harvest of the century in Bordeaux, with exceptional weather conditions producing grapes so fine that dogs are turning vegetarian to eat them. That, at least, is what the region's winemakers would have you believe as they lavish praise on this year's pickings.

For decades, few have taken English winemaking seriously. But that's all starting to change because of global warming.

The Australian Macquarie Group is launching two new funds into Austria, looking to fill the gaps in the country's domestic fund firms' offerings.

Climate change sets the trend: less alcohol, greater grape selection / Exciting display of innovation in Stuttgart

'Wine is not a sin' were the opening words from Jean-Robert Pitte, the former president of the Sorbonne University to a wine conference in Italy last week.

US restrictions on Brunello di Montalcino will remain in place, the US Trade Bureau has said.