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5 Days and 2,500 Years Under the Sea: Ancient Underwater Winemaking Technique Revived

One of the most prized wines of ancient Rome was made with a very unusual step. An Italian winemaker heard it hadn't been recreated in millennia: "I'll do it"

• Shawn Zylberberg

Feb 24, 2020

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'Prosecco Police' Try to Decline Sparkling Wine 'ATM'

A bar in London pays homage to its previous occupant, a bank, with a whimsical wine dispenser, but Italian authorities are not amused

• Shawn Zylberberg

Feb 21, 2020

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No Ménage à Trois, Please, We're British: U.K. Censor Strikes 'Midnight' Wine

A British regulatory agency is not feeling the love for the California brand's less-than-coy label language

• Collin Dreizen

Feb 20, 2020

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Resurrecting a Medieval Wine Ship that Carried 200,000 Bottles' Worth of Cargo

The 100-foot behemoth, lost for half a millennium, will soon be upright again—and gives a fascinating glimpse at the European wine wars of Henry VI's day

• Ben O'Donnell

Feb 14, 2020

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Record-Breaking 10-Foot-Tall Bottle Erupts in Enormous Red-Wine Flood

At a Chinese restaurant in Austria, it took six firefighters to clean up the spill. Could they rescue the remainder of the zaftig Zweigelt?

• Collin Dreizen

Feb 12, 2020

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Tiny House Nation Comes to Wine Country

Sutter Home: Project Tiny Home pairs a famed winery and beloved reality show to fight the housing crisis one small abode at a time

• Collin Dreizen

Feb 11, 2020

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Oscars Wine Wins: 8,500 Champagne Piper Glasses, Gold Coppola Bottles and Wolfgang Puck Plates Plants

We dish on the pours and snacks of the Academy Awards. Plus: Who made a beeline for the Champagne?

• Shawn Zylberberg

Feb 10, 2020

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Inside the Newest Urban Winery: The Eiffel Tower

After hauling tanks, barrels and crush equipment up 187 feet, a trio of eno-entrepreneurs has set out to return Paris to its historic winemaking glory

• Collin Dreizen
• Shawn Zylberberg

Feb 5, 2020

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Drug-Dealer Wine-Stealers Busted for Alleged Theft of Royal Wine

A chopper chase and drug raid in Alsace turned up surprise contraband allegedly purloined from a very elite French winemaker—and intended for a very elite French wine customer

• Collin Dreizen

Feb 4, 2020

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Charlie Palmer, Charles Woodson, Guy Fieri and Shaq Are the MVPs of Super Bowl Wine Tailgating

This year's big-game parties featured Fieri in a food truck, wine and "GOAT Fuel," and Yellow Tail switching 'roos for puppies

• Ben O'Donnell

Feb 3, 2020

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79 Days in a Wine Barrel, 80 Feet Above Ground, Man Breaks Very Specific World Record

For 11 weeks, a South African man has navigated backaches, a lightning strike and bad cell service. But we managed to get ahold of the record holder for "pole-sitting in a barrel." Plus, coronavirus arrives in Bordeaux via wine trade

• Collin Dreizen
• Shawn Zylberberg

Jan 30, 2020

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'Sideways' Comes to Off-Broadway, Makes Peace with Merlot?

The original cult wine movie is coming to the stage, including a pre-show tasting of the much-maligned grape. Plus, man brandishes Champagne saber as weapon-saber

• Shawn Zylberberg

Jan 27, 2020

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Make It So: How a Not-So-French Vineyard Got Cast as Star Trek's 'Château Picard'

We discovered the winery that plays Captain Picard's "Burgundy" retreat—and went behind the scenes

• Ben O'Donnell

Jan 24, 2020

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Lead in His Red: Wine Killed Beethoven, Suggests Provocative New Research

A professor in Belgium has composed a case for the true cause of the virtuoso's death. Did his autopsy cover it up?

• Collin Dreizen

Jan 23, 2020

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Is this the World's Smallest Vineyard?

A British lawyer and cottage-keeper has registered his two-vine, er, "parcel" for commercial production, claiming to take the record—from the humblest man alive

• Shawn Zylberberg

Jan 16, 2020