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CT LIVE!: Weekday Wines Have Fewer Calories and Less Alcohol
The local company was created by a husband and wife team. Go to DrinkWeekday.com for more information.
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Why Cork Is a Go-To Sustainable Material for More Than Just Wine Stoppers
The bark of cork trees is mostly used for wine stoppers, but it has other uses in sneakers and trains.
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What's the Link Between Sneakers, Happy Hour and Infrastructure?
You can find a relationship between any three things by asking the right questions and connecting the dots. In this final episode of the Connect the Dots series, Teneille Gibson explains the link between the sneakers you wear, the wine you drink and the trains you ride.
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State Launches CT Wine Passport App
In honor of National Chardonnay Day, Connecticut relaunched its wine passport program with an app Thursday. The mobile app allows people to create an itinerary to visit different vineyards and wineries around the state, explore by region, product, or experience, tag your favorites, collect stamps, and be entered in the prize drawing while exploring Connecticut Wine Country. The CT Wine…
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How Do You Prevent Wine Bottles from Ending up in Landfills? Turn Them into Sand
After retiring from a career buying wine for a grocery store chain in Washington state, Chris Lueck realized there wasn’t a way to recycle glass wine bottles in rural parts of his state. Because of that, many of those bottles were ending up in landfills. Lueck created Ground2Ground, a company that pulverizes used bottles and turns them into sand that...
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France Is the Most Visited Country in the World. Here's Why
France has the most international tourist visitors in the world, followed by Spain and the U.S. French residents rate it for its landscape, culture and food.
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Barefoot Wine and Oreo Have Teamed Up for an Unexpected Pairing
Oreo cookies and milk. Red wine and chocolate. Oreo cookie wine?
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Glass Bottle Shortages Put Pressure on Wine and Spirits Companies Ahead of Key Holiday Season
Glass bottles are in short supply, putting pressure on winemakers and distillers ahead of the holiday season.
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Canned Cocktails Are Gaining Momentum in the Push for Lower State Tax Rates But Beer Brewers Push Back
The spirits industry is pushing for states to lower taxes on canned cocktails to more closely mimic those placed on beer and hard seltzer.
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These People Moved to Their Dream Destinations During the Pandemic — Here's What Life Is Like 1 Year Later
The pandemic ended some jobs and turned others remote, allowing people to make life-changing moves to places like Greece, Napa Valley and Costa Rica.
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G.O.A.T. Brew & Wine Fest Returns to Dunkin' Donuts Park October 16
The Hartford Yard Goats will once again host the team’s G.O.A.T. Brew & Wine Fest on Saturday, Oct. 16 at Dunkin’ Donuts Park.
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Texas Marks First Sunday With New Law Allowing Earlier Beer, Wine Sales
Texas law no longer prohibits the sale of beer and wine before noon on Sundays — a change that took effect days before the Labor Day weekend.
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Russia Upsets France With New Champagne Law: Here's What You Need to Know
The French Champagne industry asked its members to halt shipments to Russia, after a new law that forces them to write “sparkling wine” on their bottles.
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How to Spend a Month Abroad Without Missing Work
New companies are designing international workcations for remote workers who want to live and work abroad without the long-term commitment.
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A Bottle of Wine Aged in Space Could Sell for $1 Million — How and Why It Tastes Different Than Earth-Bound Wine
A bottle of red wine that spent more than a year living among the stars could end up being the most expensive wine ever sold.
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‘Sour Grapes' Wine Fraud Con Man Deported to Indonesia
A one-time California man who bilked wine collectors out of millions by selling cheaper booze he rebottled in his kitchen has been deported to his native Indonesia, U.S. immigration officials said Tuesday.
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Cosmic Mouthful: Tasters Savor Fine Wine That Orbited Earth
Researchers in Bordeaux are carefully studying a dozen bottles of French wine that returned to Earth after a stay aboard the International Space Station
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FBI Arrests NH Man Who ‘Chugged' Glass of Wine at Capitol Riot
Federal authorities on Monday arrested a New Hampshire man who admitted to storming the U.S. Capitol last month and chugging wine that he found in a lawmaker’s office. The FBI’s Boston division said it had arrested Jason Riddle, 32, Monday afternoon with the help of Keene, New Hampshire police. The arrest was the sixth made by the Boston division...
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Package Store Owners Fight To Keep Grocery Stores From Selling Wine
Lawmakers are once again debating a bill that would allow grocery stores and big-box retailers to sell wine in their stores. The 1,200 package store owners in the state are not happy with the proposed legislation. “We forecast that it would probably take about 20% of our business away, which all that being wine is significant,” Matthew Randazzo said. Randazzo…
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Wine Not? American Airlines Launches Wine Delivery Service
American Airlines has launched an at-home wine delivery service featuring bottles directly from the carrier’s lounges and onboard offerings.