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Champagne gets a 15 percent alcohol limit for 2026
After the region's earliest harvest on record left grapes unusually rich in sugar, French authorities raised Champagne's alcohol ceiling from its usual 13 percent.
Guanajuato wine region wins Mexico's top wine prize
Cuna de Tierra's Gran Pago Ricardo Vega 2021 takes Best Mexican Wine as Guanajuato collects 52 international medals and opens a 16-festival harvest season through October.
Loch Lomond's Waypoint 31 Year Old is its oldest peated malt
Just 2,600 bottles of the Scottish distillery's oldest peated single malt reach specialist retailers this month, aged 31 years and finished in Tawny Port pipes.
Congolese coffee sets record price at London auction
Pact Coffee paid $55.50 a kilogram for an experimental anaerobic lot from South Kivu, beating 63 other bidders at the Best of Congo Cooperatives auction.
Valence en Gastronomie Festival returns for 11th edition
The Drôme department's food festival runs 10 to 13 September 2026 on Valence's Champ de Mars, with Michelin-starred chefs, wine pairings and roughly 50,000 visitors expected.
World's 50 Best Bars heads to Milan for the first time
The global ranking lands in Italy on 7 October, at the Palazzo del Ghiaccio, as regional lists from Asia and North America already point to this year's favourites.
Don Melchor joins New World Winery award shortlist
Wine Enthusiast's 27th Wine Star Awards pits the Puente Alto producer against wineries from New Zealand, Australia, Argentina and Armenia, with a winner due on 12 November.
Canadian alcohol ban closes US border to beer, wine and whisky
From 29 September, packaged Canadian beer, wine, cider and spirits can no longer enter the US. Bulk spirits and bottles already imported stay outside the order; until then, a 50% duty applies.
Heaven Hill's 20th Parker's Heritage bourbon lands at $199.99
The 14-year-old, barrel-proof release uses rye backset in the mash and closes two decades of a collection built to honour the late master distiller Parker Beam.
Alcohol-free drinks are not a gateway, says new report
Club Soda's Gateway? No Way pulls together survey work and academic studies to test a claim the drinks industry has been arguing about for a decade.
Death & Co Seattle opens its fifth bar in Pioneer Square
The New York cocktail bar group's fifth outpost seats 80 people on RailSpur Alley, with a 12-page drink menu, tartines and shared plates to match its Pioneer Square home.
US Barista Championship opens registration on 16 September
Two qualifiers in Houston and San Diego, 48 seats between them, and a national final at Pinewood Coffee in Franklin, Tennessee, at the end of January.
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