Your daily dose of news and happenings from around the drink-o-sphere:
– With books written in over 50 languages and rare curios of wine history, the Peter J Shields Library at UC Davis is considered the greatest wine library in the world.
– At an early hearing in bankruptcy court, Premier Cru owner John Fox invoked the Fifth Amendment.
– Forbes sits down with Michael Mondavi to talk family history, demographic shifts among drinkers and the use of drones in wine production.
– In the past six years, rye whiskey volume grew an incredible 662 percent, mostly thanks to the spirit’s involvement in the cocktail revival.
– Singapore-based artists Li Jun Pek and Jenn Perng use coffee stains as a medium to create adorable illustrations.
– The Environmental Institute in Munich found traces of the Monsanto-produced pesticide Glyphosate in 14 of Germany’s most popular beers.
– Invented in 1941 by German doctor Peter Schlumbohm, the Chemex coffee maker is revered as much for its design as it is for the flavor of its pour-over brew.
– Finally, the Congress of South African Trade Unions has denied approval for Anheuser-Busch InBev’s $108 billion takeover of SABMiller, citing AB InBev’s reputation for cutting jobs after mergers in a country where one in four people are unemployed.
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