When Marcel Lapierre took over the family vineyard in Burgundy decades ago, the pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and other chemicals used in farming had made the wine "simply horrid". "I couldn't drink the wine on the table," said Lapierre, an easy-going man who goes about in a worn, country-style corduroy and hat. "So I decided to rethink the whole process ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Elisabetta Fagiuoli's elegant appearance, grey-hair and bright brown eyes, conceal a steely firm commitment to ancient methods of cultivating grapes and a belief that women traditionally make the wine. When she was growing up in Custozza, not far from Verona, Italy, women made wines because it was a home affair. "There were only women taking ...

Australian drinks giant Foster's Sunday warned one quarter of the nation's grape vines needed to be pulled up to reverse a damaging wine glut forcing growers to let their fruit wither on the vine. Chief executive Ian Johnston said global wine growers were experiencing a "very painful period" due to the global economic downturn, and a significant amount ...