Although there is no reason not to drink while on these meds – unless you’re going to get too drunk to remember to take your doses – I have been turned off the bottle after mixing my toxins left me feeling horribly nauseous.

According to Drinkaware, a pint of lager is often only as calorific as a slice of pizza, which would mean wading through a lot of liquid before you got to the equivalent of a full wheel. But let’s consider wine, which mostly has a higher ABV (alcohol by volume) than beer.

That spot where you keep your unopened bottles of wine and dregs of vodka is probably the wrong place in which to store your fine wines.

An FBI agent recently showed Arnaud de Laforcade a file with several labels supposedly from 1947 bottles of Château Cheval Blanc, one of France’s finest wines.

Some wine lover with deep pockets who acts quickly can buy an instant wine collection at Sotheby’s, which is offering 100 original wooden cases of the iconic California wine Opus One for $165 000.

The world is heading for a wine shortage as vineyards struggle to keep pace with steadily rising demand, economists warn.

A single cask of organic white wine from the French vineyard owned by Hollywood power couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie fetched more than €10,000 at auction on Wednesday, organisers said.

Controversial former Conservative Party deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft on Wednesday uncorked plans to tap into Britain’s burgeoning sparkling wine industry.

Billionaire Wendy Appelbaum is lodging a formal complaint against top auctioneer Rael Levitt at the National Consumer Commission as the fight over a prime Cape wine estate turns nasty.

The Champagne Diet is the latest diet trend in the US, and is becoming the talk here, too.