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Germany's 2026 wine harvest rises but stays below average
Destatis puts the 2026 wine must harvest at 8.0 million hectolitres, up 5% on 2025 but still 4% below the 2020-2025 average, after a dry summer shrank the berries.
Milano Wine Week 2026 opens with 100 events and two hubs
The ninth edition adds awards for wine tourism, brings back Wine List Italia and puts restaurant mark-ups on the agenda, with tastings from the Marriott to the Arco della Pace.
Marsha's sports bar in Philadelphia closes after a year
The South Street bar, the city's first built around women's sports, opened in September 2025. Its last shift is on Sunday, and the owners gave no reason in their announcement.
Marqués de Cáceres collects Spain's best white wine award
Los Altares 2016, the Cenicero winery's first white Gran Reserva, came through a shortlist drawn from Bacchus 2026 and received its prize at Madrid's Teatro Real.
Rioja closes its earliest grape harvest on record
Growers brought in 333.77 million kilograms of grapes, 48% more than last year, in a season compressed by persistent heat.
Yield wine bar opens third site on Essex Road
The Stoke Newington natural wine group has opened a bar and shop in Angel, its third London address in three years.
The Savoy reopens Beaufort Bar as Beaufort Wine Bar
The London hotel's Beaufort Bar reopens as Beaufort Wine Bar, with more than 250 wines from 18 countries and half the cellar poured by the glass.
Best Sommelier of the World 2026: 20 semi-finalists named
Five women made the cut, a first for the contest. Reeze Choi and Pascaline Lepeltier are back for another run, while Belgium and host nation Portugal went out in the quarter-finals.
Quique Dacosta Mahou dinner pairs four beers for €39
Five courses, four Mahou beers and one confirmed date. The chef's two Michelin-starred restaurants are on the programme, but their prices and dates are still to come.
Rafa Nadal wine: El Tenista, an organic Monastrell from Jumilla
The tennis player and Viñas Familia Gil, the family behind Bodegas Juan Gil, release a limited edition from 50-year-old ungrafted vines. Vintage and bottle count are not public.
A coffee watch Kickstarter raises six times its goal
Chronofuns' Coffee in Motion Chronograph puts a mechanical movement, bean-shaped hour markers and a swirling espresso subdial on the wrist.
Moutai House Singapore opens as the brand's first lifestyle venue
Kweichow Moutai is turning a 1919 riverside building into three floors of baijiu, from a tasting gallery to a Chinese restaurant and a rooftop bar.
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