Shopping lists this Christmas are likely to include a good few bottles of cut-price champagne this year alongside the crackers and mince pies.

England's wine industry needs more workers. After a record year, three millionbottles of English wine could be produced using 2009's grapes, but the number of skilled workers in the industry is falling behind the increased production.

This past weekend 713 hardy French men and women stripped down to send a message about climate change. They posed nude in French vineyards to warn the world about the impact of global warming on the French wine industry.

Nearly half of UK wine drinkers said they would buy a wine with an alcohol level of just 9% abv - provided that taste is not compromised - a new survey has revealed.

its third acquisition in the past six or seven months.

Rhone producer Nicolas Jaboulet is set to release his first wine from a new joint venture with the Perrin family of Chateau Beaucastel

The UK wine industry is to receive £1.6m to address the lack of winemakers trained to deal with the unpredictable British weather and terroir conditions.

French researchers used a mass spectrometer to analyse component chemicals as wines effervesce.

Jean-Charles Boisset, scion of France's third largest wine company, and Gina Gallo, granddaughter of Julio Gallo, grand-niece of Ernest, and a public face of E&J Gallo, America's largest winery, were married Sept. 26.

Two of France's best-known wine groups merge next year.

LVMH and Richemont could save about 500 million euros ($714 million) by merging, mostly through combining their distribution and gaining clout in negotiations to buy advertising and rent store space

After initial euphoria, Burgundy producers are predicting 2009 will be a great vintage, but not a classic like 2005.

Thanks to the abolition of import duties, UK has overtaken France as the biggest wine exporter to Hong Kong, based on the export figures of 7 months released by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council.

A charity auction of more than 3,000 bottles of Bordeaux and Champagne from the private cellar of Albert Frere, a Belgian billionaire, raised a higher-than- expected 1.1 million pounds ($1.8 million) in London.

The new name of Bouchard Pere et Fils' Beaujolais domaine Chateau Poncié will be Villa Ponciago - to reflect its Roman roots. Chateau Poncié is a 120ha property in Fleurie of which 55ha is planted to the Beaujolais grape Gamay.

The wines of Meursault, Montrachet and Volnay could disappear forever as increases in temperature destroy the unique terroirs of Burgundy, a new report from Greenpeace says.

The big houses and growers agree to trim supply; they'll save some wine for future years

Bouchard took over the estate in early 2008 and intends 'to do the same with Poncié as we did with William Fevre in Chablis.'

Is character lost when rustic varieties like Carignane are replaced by big sellers like Merlot?

According to the Champagne Bureau (Washington, DC), 2009 should be another "high quality season" for producers of the famous bubbly from Champagne, France.