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A selection of links to interesting wine news... are you sitting comfortably? The I shall begin...

Champagne sales are steadily rising in the UK, but will the broadening appeal hit its prestige... a little history and background to Port Port wine brought two countries together... Guinness claims to be the freshest beer in the world Well in the black... created to assist winery tourism by offering detailed maps (utilising Google Maps) Winery Bound shows where wineries are located across the United States. Hundreds of the buggers... the London Wine and Spirits Fair at Excel, London is a trade event but the videos and overviews are very interesting... Jason Curtis is after comments on the ideal wine container does it have to be glass? can it not be square without a punt?... Red wine consumption decreases the rick of cataracts but beer does not seem to work say researchers in Iceland... judging wines via chromatography from the New York Times so not sure if that link will work...