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FNB Sauvignon Blanc Top 10 names South Africa's 2026 winners
Judges picked six wooded and four unwooded Sauvignon Blancs from 159 entries, as the country's only single-grape wine competition marked its 20th year in Stellenbosch.
Le Monde Wine Garden opens at its Prata di Pordenone winery
The Maccan family has turned the outdoor space of its Friuli winery into a garden by architect Alessandro Isola. The launch skipped the practical details: hours, menu and prices.
Mundo Mezcal 2026 draws over 250 brands to Mexico City
The second edition of Mundo Mezcal filled Mexico City's Campo Marte gardens with agave spirits from eight states, a year after the festival set a Guinness record for mezcal varieties on display.
Indri's Diwali whisky ages in Portuguese port casks
Piccadily Agro's Haryana distillery releases a 58.5% single malt finished in ruby port wood, limited to 180 bottles and priced at £200 in the UK.
Hong Kong wine festival spreads to Tamar Park with 340 booths
The Wine & Dine Festival runs from 29 October to 1 November with Lafite 2016 in the glass and a ten-hand dinner, then hands over to a month of citywide dining offers.
Mendoza's 2026 harvest comes in cool, wet and uneven
Catena Zapata's harvest report describes a season closer to 2019 than to recent dry years, with yields down sharply at altitude and up in parts of the Uco Valley.
Cù Bòcan Creation #9: Tomatin's 17-year popcorn whisky
A Manzanilla sherry cask finish gives Tomatin's oldest Cù Bòcan release yet a salted, caramel edge, 3,800 bottles at 46% ABV, released from October 12.
Panda & Sons wins the world's best cocktail menu award
The Edinburgh speakeasy's Transcend menu beat the field at The World's 50 Best Bars 2026 in Milan, as three other UK bars broke into the main list.
Nikolai Haram Svorte wins Best Sommelier of the World 2026
The 29-year-old Norwegian beat France's Pascaline Lepeltier and Japan's Wataru Iwata in a four-hour final in Lisbon, on his first attempt at the ASI's triennial world title.
Óscar Tobía, founder of Bodegas Tobía in Rioja, dies
The San Asensio-born winemaker founded Bodegas Tobía in 1994 and, according to the winery, made Spain's first barrel-fermented rosé, Alma Tobía, in 1996.
US funds $8m coffee and cacao research lab in Hawaii
The State Department is backing a University of Hawaiʻi-led program, the first federal coffee research money since USAID's funding collapsed in 2025.
Yamazaki 25 wins another Japanese whisky award
Suntory's flagship single malt took the International Spirits Challenge's Japanese whisky trophy for a fourth straight year, as Glenmorangie claimed the competition's top overall prize.
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