French vinters aim for younger drinkers
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Forget about things improving with age. Some officials here are saying French wine needs to be made more appealing to their not-so-vintage countrymen.
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NEW YORK  - People who drink heavily in their youth may have a higher risk of developing a collection of risk factors for heart disease and stroke, new research suggests.
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Nearly half of disadvantaged youngsters started drinking before the age of 13, a survey finds.
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Embattled French winemakers on Thursday  welcomed an easing of tough alcohol advertising laws, hoping  new rules allowing adverts with a splash of color and  imagination will cure the sector of its chronic sales headache.
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ISSY-LES-MOULINEAUX, France, Dec. 6 -- There  are more than 500 kinds of French cheese and 362 types of French wine. Why shouldn't there be at least one international French news channel?
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A survey suggests fewer youngsters drink regularly,   but many of those who do drink too much.
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The holidays mark the end of one year and the beginning of another -- a worthy occasion for celebration. So it's hardly surprising that wine, beer and spirits flow freely.
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The ability to discern good wine from bad, name the specific brand from a tiny sip and recommend a complementary cheese would seem to be about as human a skill as there is. In Japan, robots are doing it.
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Children as young as eight years old are being treated for alcohol and substance abuse in Northern Ireland.
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PARIS  - Winegrowers in northeast France are puzzled over the mysterious destruction of large swaths of two vineyards in Alsace, a region along the German border known for full-bodied white wines.
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PARIS -- Grape vines in the Champagne region are sagging this year with an abundance of fruit. But this won't mean increased supply -- or cheaper bottles of bubbly for consumers.
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PARIS  - The goal, senators suggested, was to encourage the French to drink better wine, not more. How best to accomplish that? By slightly relaxing France's restrictions on wine ads, allowing vintners to vaunt the smell, taste and colour of their vintages.
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French vintners staged protests in key wine-making regions Wednesday to press the government to help an industry they Growers and wine makers demonstrated in Bordeaux, Avignon, Angers, Macon, Nantes and several ...
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Rebellious old habits die hard in the northwestern Swiss valley of Val-de-Travers, where the alcoholic drink absinthe, nicknamed the "green fairy", is about to become legal again.
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Children as young as 12 buy alcohol by ordering it over the phone with takeaways, a government adviser says.
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French doctors appealed on Monday to President Jacques Chirac to intervene and stop changes in wine advertising rules the physicians fear will lead to more deaths from alcohol-related illnesses and drunk ...
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ISSY-LES-MOULINEAUX, France -- There are more than 500 kinds of French cheese and 362 types of French wine. Why shouldn't there be at least one international French news channel?