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Amuse-bouches: The latest restaurant news bites
We round up the week’s restaurant-related news, from the opening of 28°-50°’s Covent Garden outpost to Daniel Humm’s Davies and Brook using an innovative wine tool.
Masseto 2015 released through La Place
Hot on the heels of Napa Valley’s Opus One, today is the turn of Super Tuscan Masseto to release its 2015 vintage through La Place de Bordeaux.
Italy protests Australian ‘Nero d’Avola’ in the UK
Italy’s quality and anti-fraud agency under the Ministry of Agriculture has called for wine merchants in the UK to block the selling of Australian wines bearing the name of the variety Nero d’Avola on their wine labels, the latest protest from Italy against Australia following the contentious wrangling over the use of ‘Prosecco’ on Australian sparkling wines.
Sir Ian Botham launches wine range at Lord’s
Sir Ian Botham OBE has officially launched his own range of wines at Lord’s cricket ground in the UK today.
Fukushima disaster leaves trace on Californian wines
Researchers at Bordeaux University have traced the impact of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster to the Californian wine industry, identifying a trace spike in radiation levels in wines from the 2012 vintage onward, which nevertheless remain within a normal threshold.