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Following last week's Has the WHO lost its way regarding alcohol?, we're pleased to republish another helpful commentary on the scientific evidence regarding alcohol and health. Written by Kenneth Mukamal...

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Alcohol percentages on wine labels - California and Hungary

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Alcohol on labels – how accurate?

Tolerance takes on a new meaning for alcohol-conscious wine drinkers. A version of this article is published by the Financial...

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The highs and lows of alcohol

A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. A detail from Hogarth's Gin Lane above. This here...

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Reducing alcohol naturally

Arnica Rowan examines ways of producing lighter wines when global warming suggests otherwise. Across the planet, consumer preferences are swinging...

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Transatlantic trade war effects

How the wine trade is responding to the new US tariffs. US imports of French, Spanish, German and English wine...

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Gayda's nine-way Syrah experiment

What is the effect of the shape, size and material of the container in which a wine is aged? Take...

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Zero-alcohol wine: horrific or terrific?

Richard considers how vital wine's defining ingredient is. Halloween is the right time of year for blood-curdling horror stories, so...

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How they shrunk the safe drinking limits

Obviously all of us who love wine are right to be concerned about its most stimulating ingredient, alcohol, and its...

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Is alcohol in wine taboo?

The legs of the chair next to me are made of red polypropylene and have the form of triangular prisms...

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Fool Proof? New wearable technology monitors inebriation

In 2015, I mentioned a prize being offered to the first company that could create a wearable device that continuously...

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A change of style for Chile's leading winemaker

'It's not really about picking early', Marcelo Papa clarified when we had dinner last week in London, 'it is a...

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Why weaker wines taste astringent

21 May Sometimes our Throwback Thursday articles delve deep into our archives and sometimes they retrieve relatively recent articles previously...

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Less alcohol but no less flavour

This is a much longer version of an article also published by the Financial Times. Vine-growers in the southern hemisphere...

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Why wines are stronger now

This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. Is alcohol the key ingredient in...

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The importance of alcohol

Bartholomew Broadbent, son of Michael, runs a leading American wine importer, Broadbent Selections, Inc. He also makes Port, Madeira and...

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Styles of German Riesling – the numbers

In the recent Members' forum discussion on Purple pages about the drinking window of Riesling, we were once again drawn...

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Italy's agriculture minister on the attack

Luca Zaia, Italy's charismatic and controversial agricultural minister, has recently attracted a storm of protest after having expressed his dismay...