Australians take advantage of nuclear fallout Brits and French prefer to shoot ion beams from particle accelerator Update 17:35 Australian researchers have succeeded, after 11 years of research and several hundred bottles of wine, in coming up with a new carbon-dating method to check the real age of vintage wines. It’s not cheap, but the […]
Archives for March 2010
Airline losses will be lower than forecast
Worldwide improvement is concentrated in Asia, Latin America Brands, not flags, must guide the industry to profitability, says Iata head Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The airline industry is expected to have an overall loss of $9.4 billion for 2009, according to Iata, the Geneva-based air transport industry organization, which released new figures Thursday 11 March. […]
Book and wine club for Swiss French wines
Alexandre Truffer, a young and excellent Swiss wine writer, is coming out with a book on the best wines from French-speaking Switzerland that will be available in bookstores 22 March – I’ll be carrying a review of Vins de suisse romande here next week, as I’m keen to see which are his favourites, but more […]
Swiss wines charm the French
Swiss wines take impressive 11% of gold awards Swiss wines had a rare opportunity to charm Parisian palates last weekend and, according to Vinea’s new president, Francois Murisier, the wines went down very well, thank you. The Vinalies international wine competition in Paris that has just ended included a presentation Sunday night 28 February, for […]
Let them drink wine! French fight binge drinking
France, like other European countries, is trying to work out how to best deal with teenage binge drinking and the latest advice from the experts is to offer wine tasting courses. Britain’s Guardian turned this into headline news, while France’s Le Monde relegated it to a small mention at the end of an article about […]