South African artist and environmentalist Charles Frank, from Paarl, has broken the prestigious Guinness World Record for painting the largest oil painting.

It is ‘new-release’ season. As we move out of winter the wines of 2015 and longer-aged 2014s start showing their true colours and are released to the market.

Much like Instagram, ordering wine is a game of posturing.

Wine drinkers who lack the commitment to finish the whole bottle will soon have a digital solution, as the Internet of Things attempts to wirelessly-connect yet another part of our lives.

One of Drew Barrymore’s first experiences with wine was drinking pinot grigio around the table, gossiping with her girlfriends, so it makes sense that this mother of two and A-list celebrity would want to produce her own bottle of the classic white under her line of Barrymore wines.

Billionaire investor Jeff Greene is selling Palazzo di Amore, a 25-acre Beverly Hills compound suited for royalty. With an asking price of $195 million, it will be the nation’s priciest private residence when it hits the MLS next week.

France on Saturday won the world blind wine-tasting competition for teams, unseating reigning champion Belgium.