Don drinks a glass or two of Olly’s natural wine – and likes it; Olly has a delicious Saumur blanc. Italian consorzio pushes lightweight wine bottles; Best Value Rums top readership scales along with cuts at the US TTB; hail batters French vineyards, from Cognac to southern Bordeaux, Languedoc, Champagne and flooding in the vineyards; recent export figures for Italian wines “worryingly” down; bottle recall at Cellier des Dauphins; wine labels feature in Argentinian torture case; France’s regional Workplace Ministry takes on industry behemoth Grands Chais de France; Cité du Vin embezzlement charge thrown out.
