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Rosé Champagne Rosé champagne is the wine world’s new “it” girl – the drink that everyone wants to be seen drinking this festive season. It has become so fashionable that it is the drink of choice for hedge fund managers taking their girlfriends out in the city, footballers’ wives and rap artists. Rosé champagne has bling.

Sake around the world The fine and delicate flavours of sake, the Japanese rice-based beverage, makes it a particularly good companion for certain dishes whose flavours it brings to the fore. Following the sushi wave, the variations on the theme of sake have started to intrigue top chefs, from New York to Syndey, not to mention London and Paris.

Packaging It is eight o’clock in the evening. You walk into your flat, fling open the fridge and reach out for a can of cool, refreshing Chablis. No, this is not 2050 – this is today and new packaging is changing the way we buy and consume our wine.

Wine & cocoa The god Quetzalcoatl was far from imagining that by teaching men how to cultivate the cocoa tree, it would be spread worldwide, thus enabling the birth of vintages whose soil types are as famous as those of wines.

Ice Wine What could be more enchanting than the delicate nectar known as Vin de Glace, Eiswein or Ice Wine (depending on where you’re from) made by gently juicing the small frozen grapes found in the early morning. Let’s take a trip to a place where the cold is soothing.

Aging wine... When do we drink wine? A great deal has been published recently about drinking patterns in Europe. While the English youth are binge drinking like never before, the French young are abandoning their national heritage and avoiding wine altogether.

Screw caps Time was, no self respecting wine would be seen without a cork – unless it was sold on an airline. Now, everyone is leaping on the screw cap bandwagon, and the Marlborough district of New Zealand, for example, sells its great Sauvignon Blanc only in screw cap. What is this closure and what’s in it for us?