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Marie Brizard Wine & Spirits: First Half 2026 earnings
Charenton-le-Pont, 24th September 2026 H1 2026 earnings down amid a globally challenging market environment Business resilience in France, particularly in the second quarter EBITDA of €4.9m in H1 2026, down €0.9m from €5.9m in…
These white wines are better after a lie-down
Bunny and Yvonne Peglidis have been farming their dry-grown vineyard at Watervale in South Australia's Clare Valley for half a century. Every year they spend autumn harvesting the grapes – Bunny, aged 93, on the tractor and Yvonne, aged 85…
8 Best BioWare Games That Aged Like Fine Wine
A pack of wolves can end a Baldur's Gate 1 playthrough a mere five minutes after the tutorial ends. A squadmate you didn't bother checking in on in Mass Effect 2 can die permanently during a mission you don't get to redo. And a Sonic RPG on the…
This under-the-radar region is having a 'quiet wine' boom. Here's why
Hungary's Tokaj was established as a wine region by royal decree in 1737, with winemaking going back nearly 1,000 years. Tokaj's wine production rose between 2024 and 2025, while global production remained below historical averages. The region's…
Common Turns Childhood Park Into New Wine Brand
Common just bottled up the feeling of his South Side childhood and made it available to everyone. Jefferey Park, his new wine brand developed with Argentine winemaker Karim Mussi and Gopuff, officially launched today with a 2024 Pinot Noir priced…
8 Ignored Video Games That Have Aged Like Fine Wine
Video games are a modern medium, not because they are new, but because they are the most popular form of entertainment nowadays, with titles such as Elden Ring and Red Dead Redemption 2 pushing the industry forward. However, just because the new…
Sorry, wine snobs! Hybrid grapes score just as well as classic reds
For generations, wine lovers have been told that darker, more intense reds are richer, better and more expensive. But a new study suggests one of the biggest assumptions in the wine world could be completely wrong. Researchers asked 82 regular red…
California wineries struggle amid trade war and shifting consumer trends
Updated: 9:09 PM PDT Sep 23, 2026 Editorial Standards ⓘ California wineries struggle amid trade war and shifting consumer trends Updated: 9:09 PM PDT Sep 23, 2026 Editorial Standards ⓘ California's wine industry, a cornerstone of the…
'It's a new world now': Why more California winery bankruptcies and foreclosures are coming
This past week, we saw two of the biggest stories yet in the wine industry's ongoing crisis: Napa's Signorello is facing foreclosure, something that rarely happens to wineries, and Gundlach Bundschu, one of California's oldest wineries, has filed…
Kim Kardashian's Team Moms highlights the ridiculous excess of the US youth-sports industry
Remember when pushy sports parents were deserving objects of our collective scorn? When Marv Marinovich and Jim Pierce were bywords for abusive fatherhood, Sarah Palin made the overbearing hockey mom a global punchline, and grim stories of pushy…
Julia Child's Cambridge home hits the market for $6.475 million
Get ready to say “Bon Appétit” like Cambridge's most legendary chef because Julia Child's former home is officially on the market. The house at 103 Irving St., where the iconic author, TV host, and culinary queen lived for 40…
Napa's Artesa Estate changes hands in $40m Boisset deal
Signorello Estate faces foreclosure. Judd's Hill Winery closed its Silverado Trail facility. And nearby Gundlach Bundschu Winery just filed for bankruptcy. The wine industry is in upheaval. Yet Napa Valley's Jean-Charles Boisset is buying.
Fueling Economic Understanding
Here's a letter to a Facebook commenter. Commenting on my Facebook page, you ridicule me for criticizing Trump's proposal to ban exports of diesel from the U.S. In your opinion, Trump is a brilliant strategist who understands that “limiting…
How McDonald's is grappling with the Ozempic boom
You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Ozempic, the injectable weight loss drug which has become a transformative weapon in the war against obesity and a cultural phenomenon in its own…
Inside Trump's Information Cocoon, the Press Is an Unwelcome Guest
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and guest host Juliette Kayyem discuss what we learn from Trump's escalating battle with the press and its track record in the courts, the likely outcomes of this week's Trump-Xi summit with former New York…
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