The Smiling Grape Company

According to Drinks Business magazine, Katie Price has signed an exclusive deal with Lidl to sell her own brand of wine called “Princess” after Price’s two-year-old daughter.

Retailing at £2.99 a bottle, the tasting note reads: “slightly nutty with a bitter twist”.

An enjoyable April Fools Day article which beats Decanter magazine’s story about the government of North Korea buying the entire allocation of Chateau Latour’s second wine - Forts de Latour…

The Spanish have launched a new wine advertising campaign feauturing footballer Cristiano Ronaldo.  Does this now prove that Ronaldo is one of the grapest footballers of all time? 

Boplaas Cellars in South Africa uses a slighly different method when it comes to pressing the grapes for its rosé wine - an elephant!  The good news is that the elephant’s feet are given a good scrub before it gets to work, the bad news is that it loves to eat the grapes.  I wonder if the Elephant was in musk when helping to create this “nature-al wine”?  That would certainly add some different aromas to the blend…

A thirteen year study has now medically proven that women who drink alcohol in moderation, particularly those who drink red wine, are far less likely to gain weight and will lose weight much quicker and easier, in comparison to those women who do not drink any alcohol at all.

According to Dr. Lu Wang; of the Preventive Medicine and Aging division of the Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, USA, a 13 year study was conducted of 19,220 healthy, non-obese women from the United States, who were at least 39 years of old, carefully tracking these women’s health statistics to discover what they could determine about the role alcohol played in their life style and health.

Surprising to some, but hypothesized by many others, as it turns out, the data turned out to prove that women who were advised to stop drinking in order to avoid extra calories, actually gained more weight than any of the other test groups being tracked!

Meanwhile, women who regularly consume moderate amounts of alcohol proved to be 30% less likely to gain weight than those women who didn’t drink any alcohol at all.

In the 1955 edition of Guninness World Records, Dionsio Sanchez of Spain is cited for consuming 24 pints of beer in 52 minutes and 40 pints of wine in 59 minutes.

“We’re not going to encourage that sort of thing today,” Guinness editor in chief Craig Glenday said recently. “That’s how people get hurt.”

But can the Smiling Grape Company beat Scott Murphy’s record for smashing more than 10 one litre wine bottles in under 30 seconds with using just our bare hands?  Now that’s going to hurt…

Scientists at Gothenberg University in Sweden have discovered that the chemical resveratrol in red wine can help you stay young by slowing the ageing process. 

Unfortunately, you’ll need to drink 100 bottles a day for it to have an effect…