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WLC meets: Francis Mallmann
The outspoken Argentine chef, famous for his signature style of open fire cooking, talks life, love and liberty, and eating a steak a day, with WLC’S Lucy Shaw.

Napa winery stuns Oregon with cancelled contracts
A Californian winery has left a number of Oregon growers shocked and angry after it cancelled its contracts over claims of “smoke taint” almost on the eve of the harvest.

The Apprentice star to reveal new venture at The Wine & Spirits Show
A contestant currently battling it out with other hopefuls for a slice of Alan Sugar’s fortune on BBC’s The Apprentice will be presenting her Canadian icewine at The Wine & Spirits Show in London this month.

BC ‘excited; about 2018 harvest
Winemakers in British Columbia are reportedly “excited” about the size and quality of the harvest in the western Canadian province.

Burgundy 2018: biggest white wine harvest ‘ever’
The white wine harvest in Burgundy this year may be the one of the biggest ever recorded, with bumper crops in the Maconnais and Chablis, according to Louis Fabrice Latour.

Nobel Prize recipient to spend almost £3,000 of winnings on Champagne
Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, Sir Gregory Winter, who was named the joint-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry yesterday, has vowed to spend £2,793 of his winnings on Champagne and re-engineering his moat.

‘Sicily is the undiscovered terroir for Syrah’
Sicily holds largely unlocked potential for Syrah thinks veteran winemaker Peter Vinding-Diers, who has a new project on the Italian island.

Nine things you should know before studying WSET Level 3
If you’re about to embark on the WSET Level 3 Award, Edith Hancock highlights the things she wishes she’d known before she started.

2018 harvest in New Zealand was ‘fast and furious’
The 2018 harvest in New Zealand was “fast and furious” as winemakers battled to get their grapes off the vines before the rain hit, according to Seresin’s chief winemaker, Tamra Kelly-Washington.

Watchmaker seeks funding for wine-dyed timepieces
Philadelphia-based Analog Watch Company has launched a Kickstarter campaign for its new range, The Somm Collection, a series of four timepieces with different coloured wine-dyed cork straps.