22nd February 2012
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    Here you will find all the latest wine related news items reported, that we think you might find useful and informative. For instance, recently the world’s most expensive single bottle of wine was sold for £75,000 – it is over 200 years old, and although the most valuable, it is probably also undrinkable (but, who can afford to find out!). Just how much of what you pay for a bottle of your wine actually goes into making it rather than going to the Treasury? In this section – wine news to interest and entertain.

  • Crack down on binge drinking
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    Crack down on binge drinking
    Owners of bars and clubs face six months in jail if they allow 'all you can drink' deals

    As reported by Daily Telegraph 6th April...

  • Japanese Whisky
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    Japanese Whisky
    We're well aware this is the Vino Club and we like all things wine but we came across this and thought you might find the news interesting. Japanese whisky is seen as equal to, or in some cases better than Scottish whisky. At the 2010 World Whisky Awards, whiskies from Japan won prizes in two of the top three categories for Scottish-style whisky. Until quite recently Japan had been keeping their top-quality whisky to themselves. There is now quite a wide selection available across Europe, particularly France.

    So what's so special about Japanese whisky?

    Japanese producers adhere rigorously to traditional distilling methods; some even continue to...

  • Expensive Taste
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    Divers find vintage champagne

    30 bottles of champagne thought to pre-date back to the French Revolution have been found by divers on the Baltic seabed.

    Diver Christian Ekstrom was exploring a shipwreck when he discovered the...

    World's most expensive wines

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    When an enterprising young man named James Christie opened his sales rooms in London in December 1766, his first auction consisted of the estate of a "deceased nobleman" containing "a...

    Hitler's champagne

    A bottle of champagne believed to have been taken from Hitler's personal wine cellar by an allied soldier has been sold at auction in Dorset for £1,400. The bottle of 1937 Moet and Chandon went...

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