They’re not yet rationing pinotage in South Africa exactly, but the country’s 3,000-plus grape growers certainly can feel some of the pain of a drought that has pushed nearby Cape Town into a state of emergency.

Hoptical Illusion, Hoparazzi, Hopnotist, RoboHop and even Total Eclipse Of The Hop: these are all already actual Canadian beer names.

People sneered back in 2006 when Coke introduced Coca-Cola Blak: the fate of the coffee-flavoured soda was sealed after Anderson Cooper taste-tested it on TV and spat it out on the floor.

From critters to curse words, the designs on wine labels have evolved from Old World sensibilities to social media-worthy sassiness.

Pieter Terblanche glances at the latest order from his Shanghai sales team: wine labels featuring an exotic menagerie of tigers and other wild animals from an imaginary Africa.

Harvard University has quietly become one of the biggest grape growers in California’s drought-stricken Paso Robles wine region, securing water well drilling permits to feed its vineyards days before lawmakers banned new pumping, according to records reviewed by Reuters.

To be lucky enough to score a reservation at El Bulli was one thing.

Here’s a dinner-party brainteaser: Name the world’s largest wine exporter in the 1950s.

One recent morning I consumed more than $600 in whisky.

In a dining room above a giant supermarket, several dozen South Africans are sipping wine and sampling some of Canada’s tastiest food exports: smoked salmon, maple syrup, wild rice and more.