With a history dating back over three centuries, South Africa's world-renowned wine industry has long been the domain of generations of just a few elite white families. But the emergence of a crop of new black players such as winemaker and owner of Aslina Wines, Ntsiki Biyela, is changing the makeup of the industry that is among the world's top 10 wine producers.
Irish drinkers are easing off on the booze, a study revealed on Tuesday. Researchers found three quarters of us are “much more aware” of the dangers of over indulging – a 6% increase on last January.
Cannabis will be sold at only nine Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation stores when the drug is officially legalized in July, the province announced Tuesday. Pot will be sold at four outlets in the Halifax area and at stores in Amherst, Truro, New Glasgow, Sydney River, and Yarmouth, Justice Minister Mark Furey said.
Projects across Scotland which fight alcohol misuse have received funding from whisky bosses. The fourth round of the Scotch Whisky Action Fund is set to benefit 14 organisations.
The P.E.I. government has withdrawn a liquor inspector's warning to a Charlottetown restaurant last week. And the province's finance minister says the restaurant, My Plum, My Duck, is free once again to serve a fermented tea, kombucha, produced by a local Island company.
The growing clamor for prohibition from some Indian states, the recent government policies like the ban on sale of alcohol on national highways, and the still widely prevalent belief of the pub culture being “anti-Indian” are not deterring Indians from guzzling their pick of favorite alcohol like never before.
Lithuania — One of the heaviest drinking nations in the world is facing a severe hangover. Lithuania's new liquor law has increased the legal drinking age from 18 to 20, banned alcohol advertising, and drastically curtailed opening hours for liquor stores.
The estimated inflow of excise duty on alcohol has never missed the mark as severely as it has in the 2017 state budget, daily Postimees reports. While the truth will be determined at the beginning of February, it can already be seen that there will be a shortage of €40-50 million compared to the €276.4 million included in last year's state budget, the paper said.
The catastrophic water shortage that is gripping Cape Town is now threatening to hurt the output of the region’s vineyards, which make South Africa the world’s seventh-largest producer of wine.
The society wants it to be mandatory to include the government's guideline to drink no more than 14 units a week.
Drink manufacturers could also warn of the link with health conditions such as bowel and breast cancer.