Prestigious wine awards announce Trophy winners, with Australia and France coming out on top.

A new map of the Douro Valley by English artist and author David Eley, will be auctioned alongside a 12 bottle vertical of Quinta do Noval from 1937 to 2003 by Christie’s this June.

According to market analysts Nielsen, rosé wine now accounts for a record one in eight bottles of wine bought in supermarkets and off-licences in Britain, which is considerably higher than the one in 40 recorded in 2000. 

First things first, the CellarVie Wines team cannot lay claim to being responsible for the making of the ‘Ultimate Sandwich’. This remarkable feat of culinary engineering, complete with the beautiful pictures displayed below, arrived in our inbox courtesy of an anonymous email chain on Tuesday afternoon. Jamie Oliver would undoubtedly and perhaps quite correctly, not endorse this as a healthy meal, and it certainly isn't for the faint-hearted but we thought it was a bit of fun nonetheless. So feast your eyes on the ‘Ultimate sandwich’…   

A chain of traditional British pubs have released the secret to the perfect pint, after conducting research to find out the optimum conditions their punters look for to enjoy their ales.

Following recent reports that suggested wine in cartons is set to become a successful niche in the UK, a Swedish company have gone a step further by releasing containers shaped like women’s handbags.