Wine Vault

A California study raises questions about olive oil quality and highlights lax federal rules

The new Grand Award winner's wine director, Sophie Otton, shows there's more to Australia's wine lists than Shiraz

Foster’s renames its wine division; Diageo sells a major Bordeaux firm

Plus, a potential treasure chest of Champagne at the bottom of the Baltic Sea and the Tour de France heads to Bordeaux

Burgundy picks two new names for value wines; a Rhône appellation needed a name change

Which wine with which cut of steak? Find out from Drew Hendricks, who oversees the Grand Award-winning list at Pappas Bros. in Houston

Scientists find several yeast strains that could turn wild grasses into fuel for your car

A shocking confession: Even the experts find the country's wines daunting

Plus, rapper T.I. partners with Rémy Martin and cleaning up the Gulf with bar towels in New Orleans

Coverage for wines of Italy, Bordeaux and Port has been reassigned

California's renowned Bien Nacido Vineyards are releasing their first own label wines this autumn.

Online retailer Naked Wines has been shortlisted for the Orange Innovation Award 2010, part of the National Business Awards.

A man awaiting trial for blackmailing Domaine de la Roman��e-Conti by threatening to poison the estate's vines has been found dead in his prison cell.

IPC Media �� Decanter's parent company �� is supporting Race Online 2012, a government initiative to encourage and support as many people as possible to get online by the end of the Olympic year.

Spanish World Cup hero Andr��s Iniesta is hoping to score more success with the launch of his own wine company, Bodegas Iniesta.

Tributes have been pouring in to Graham Beck, one of the pioneers of the modern South African wine industry, who has died at the age of 80.

For the first time in more than 20 years all five Bordeaux first growths are coming together for a masterclass in London.

A graphic novel set in Bordeaux, by French cartoonist Eric Corbeyran, is due out in France in early 2011.

One of the few remaining bottles of ex-cellar 1973 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay has been sold by Spectrum Wine Auctions for $11,325 (��7,419).

Pancho Campo MW is no longer listed as a ��fugitive' on the Interpol website.

A Spanish icewine DO has been approved for the first time.

Champagne growers and houses this week agreed on a 2010 harvest yield of 10,500 kilos per hectare - an increase on last year.

A plan to drastically reduce the number of chateaux producing low cost ��basic Bordeaux' was unveiled this week.

As alternative closures now account for a third of the total market, the cork industry is mounting a new consumer campaign focusing on natural cork's green credentials.

Pierre Koffmann, once called ��the best chef in England' and a mentor to many of the current generation of the country's best chefs before his retirement five years ago, has re-emerged in top form, with a stylish new restaurant.

Treasury Wine Estates is the new name for the wine division of Foster's Group, as the drinks multinational continues the process of splitting its beer and wine businesses.

Diageo has sold its Barton & Guestier Bordeaux wine business to France's largest wine company, Castel Fr��res, for an undisclosed sum.

Riesling veteran Ernst Loosen is taking the battle over the planned Mosel road bridge to the retail shelves of the UK with a new promotional campaign.

Global warming has been a boon for Riesling, last week's Riesling Rendezvous conference in Seattle heard.

In any city except Copenhagen you'd have heard of Herman, but it suffers the misfortune of being eclipsed by the San Pellegrino World's Best Restaurant - Noma.

For the first time in the US, Pennsylvania shoppers are buying wine from automated wine kiosks.

Eight middle-aged men in double-stringed red thongs are gyrating in front of me. Their powder white skin paired with the red G-strings makes them look like Santa's little helpers.

James Suckling's departure from Wine Spectator was ��totally amicable', the critic said today.

In a move which has shocked the wine world, James Suckling has left the Wine Spectator.

A French wine culture centre is planned for Beijing and may be open before the end of this year.