THE world raised a glass to our national drink yesterday ... and it was all down to a Scots student who's made it rich thanks to the 'water of life'.

London is the second most bubbling city for workers in the UK`s wine and spirits industry, new research has found.

Six vintage bottles from the mythical Romanée Conti Domain have been withdrawn from an auction in Geneva.

It tastes like ice cream, but has the alcohol content of a glass of vino. And it`s coming to the D.C. area this summer.

Every wine lover ogles fine bottles of reds or whites that cost hundreds of dollars — well beyond our budget. Iconic wines, like Cheateau Montelena, famous for being the first Californian Chardonnay to beat French contenders at the Paris Wine Tasting in 1976, are no exception.

New York (AFP) - Millennial US winemakers have established what they call the first commercially viable rooftop vineyard in New York, hoping wine harvested from the Brooklyn Naval Yard will hit the market next year.

The news came as quite a shock last year: the international wine fair for Mediterranean wines, VINISUD, will no longer take place every two years, but every year, and will take place two weeks earlier than it has since its creation in 1994.

Funds for new vineyard plantings, research, marketing and quality standards available for next four years.

Diageo, the leader in Scotch whisky, selling just over 33 million cases every year, is proud to be championing Scotch on World Whisky Day.

New Jersey has very a very old and restrictive system in place for restaurants to get a liquor license, but things could soon be changing.