Battle of the bubbly: French champagne maker feels Russia is diluting champagne brand after new law
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Battle of the bubbly: French champagne maker feels Russia is diluting champagne brand after new lawReuters
Last Updated: Jul 10, 2021, 10:33 AM IST
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Russia has adopted legislation which will require French producers to attach a label to the back of their bottles sold in Russia with the description sparkling wine.
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French champagne industry is unhappy with Russia s new law
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Last Updated: Jul 06, 2021, 09:06 AM IST
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PARIS/MOSCOW: France s champagne industry group on Monday blasted a new Russian law that forces foreign producers to add a sparkling wine reference to their bottles of champagne, and called for the halting of exports of the bubbly drink to Russia. The law, signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, requires all foreign producers of sparkling wine to describe their product as such on the back of the bottle - though not on the front - while makers of Russian shampanskoye may continue to use that term alone.
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From rose & lavender to musk, fragrance expert helps Covid patients learn to smell again
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Last Updated: May 19, 2021, 08:20 AM IST
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To begin the process of helping people learn to smell again, the expert sets up an array of 18 custom-blended fragrances.
NEW YORK: After 13-year-old Sahil Shah lost his sense of smell to COVID-19 in November, his parents looked everywhere for help. We met with neurologists, neurosurgeons, ENT specialists, and all of them said if it was supposed to come back, it would have come back by now, said Sahil s father, Pratik Shah. But six months later, the teenager from Chicago still had no sense of smell or taste.
Wines and whiskies do well in space with sufficient space to mature
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Last Updated: Apr 08, 2021, 08:04 AM IST
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Maturing of alcohol in space may take off soon to be sold back on Earth at astronomical prices.
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Louis Gaspard d’Estournel, the maverick owner of the prized French winery Cos D’Estournel, had a fascination for India that not only led him to put an elephant on his labels but also earned him the sobriquet, the ‘Maharaja of Saint Estephe’.
He also had a clever marketing ploy: he marked some 12,000 bottles of a batch as ‘Returned from India’ (which they were) and successfully sold them at a premium back in Europe claiming that they had actually improved after two journeys by sea and a sojourn in the tropics.