The Italian wine grape harvest season has started with Pinot and Chardonnay grapes in the northern Lombardy’s Franciacorta region, with experts anticipating a better year after an especially weak 2017.
Read moreGermany’s grape harvest is officially underway on its earliest date yet after a scorching summer that has many other farmers groaning but — so far — is promising to be good for vintners.
Read moreDutch brewing company Heineken says it’s buying a 40 percent stake in the company that controls China’s biggest beer maker, China Resources Beer.
Read moreA federal class action accuses Alameda County and Leaders in Community Alternatives of racketeering, for allowing Leaders to “extort money” by charging $25.50 a day for court-ordered GPS or alcohol-monitoring ankle bracelets.
Read moreSeagram’s liquor heiress Clare Bronfman was arraigned in Brooklyn federal court on racketeering charges Tuesday in connection with a group that prosecutors say operated like a secretive cult and recruited women as sex slaves.
Read moreMore young people in America are drinking themselves to death, according to a new study from the British Medical Journal.
Read moreA police officer did not need a warrant to draw the blood of a drunken driver who fell unconscious, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
Read moreThe U.S. government is shutting down a study that was supposed to show if a single drink a day could prevent heart attacks, saying ethical problems with how the research was planned and funded undermine its credibility.
Read moreA distiller’s use of the Old Taylor name to pinpoint the location at which it will create a new bourbon does not infringe on a competitor’s trademark and falls under the fair-use defense, the Sixth Circuit ruled Thursday.
Read moreA major U.K. pub chain will stop serving French Champagne and German wheat beers next month and offer more British drinks to prepare for the country’s departure from the European Union.
Read moreMaine-based Shipyard Brewing faces a federal complaint alleging that the beer Ripe, an IPA blended with fruit juice, infringes the trademark for Ripe ‘n’ Cranky,
Read moreWhat consumers think of the Gaelic word glen is critical to a geographic-indication suit that the trade group for Scotch whiskey brought against a competitor in Germany, the EU’s highest court ruled Thursday.
Read moreThe use of the trademark Old Taylor Distillery – the namesake of E.H. Taylor, father of the modern bourbon industry – was contested before a Sixth Circuit panel Thursday morning in a dispute dubbed by one of the judges as the start of the “Bourbon War.”
Read moreFormer tennis player Ilie Nastase was arrested twice in the space of six hours in his native Romania on Friday, first on suspicion of driving a car while drunk and refusing to take a breathalyzer test, and then for going through a red light on a scooter.
Read more“Panda Beer,” ”Little General,” ”Flying Fist IPA,” and “Mandarin Wheat” are among the offerings on tap at a craft beer exhibition this week in Shanghai dedicated to expanding the palette of Chinese consumers and promoting sales of high-end brews.
Read moreAlcohol and tobacco use shaved more than a quarter of a billion years off our lives collectively in 2015 – and illicit drugs burned tens of millions more, according to a new study.
Read moreDispelling concerns that America’s embrace of marijuana will hurt alcohol sales, a new report by Moody’s says legalization efforts could create “opportunity” for spirits companies here.
Read moreA vintners’ class action claims that Colorado’s Wine Development Fee is actually an illegal tax of 1 percent on “all vinous liquors” sold in the state.
Read moreEmbattled Veterans Affairs nominee Dr. Ronny Jackson on Wednesday denied allegations he was involved in a drunken car wreck.
Read moreA German court has banned the consumption of alcohol at a planned neo-Nazi concert in hopes of preventing violence.
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