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  • Editorial illustration of Neymar beside four Le Prince wine bottles in red, black, green and blue, with the headline Who Really Makes It?
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    Celebrities Who Own Wineries: Neymar Has a Wine Now, and It Pre-Sold 300,000 Bottles

    Guess who else has joined the footballers’ winery club? Neymar. Yes, that Neymar, the man who spends his days bending footballs into impossible corners and has now decided to try the same trick with a wine label. Meet the Neymar wine Le Prince, which reported advance sales of 300,000 bottles…

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  • Wine grape varieties beside laboratory equipment during chemical fingerprinting research
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    Scientists Just Fingerprinted 126 Wine Grapes. Apparently, Grapes Have Chemical Personalities.

    Years ago, at a blind tasting with a few other wine obsessives, I confidently guessed the same grape for two glasses that turned out to be nothing alike. Different country, different colour, different everything on paper. I blamed it on a long day and moved on. I think about that…

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  • Montepulciano d’Abruzzo and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano side by side, comparing the Abruzzo Montepulciano grape wine with Tuscany’s Sangiovese wine
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    Montepulciano d’Abruzzo vs Vino Nobile di Montepulciano: Same Name, Completely Different Wine

    A friend of mine once brought a bottle of Vino Nobile di Montepulciano to dinner and spent the entire meal insisting it was “basically the fancy version” of the Montepulciano d’Abruzzo we usually drink. I let her enjoy the theory for about an hour before I ruined it. She wasn’t…

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  • Korean woman enjoying Italian Prosecco in Seoul as Prosecco grows in popularity in South Korea
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    Why Is South Korea Falling for Prosecco?

    Prosecco has traveled again. This time it hasn’t gone to another bottomless brunch in London or a wedding where somebody’s aunt starts dancing before the food arrives. It’s in Seoul, sitting beside Korean food. Prosecco DOC sales in South Korea rose 9.8% between January and April 2026. The campaign behind…

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