Messages in a Bottle: What's New in Wine

The wine world moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

After featuring it in his song lyrics and pouring it in his nightclubs, Rapper and Def Jam Records president Jay-Z has decided to boycott Cristal Champagne based on remarks from the managing director of the Champagne house that could be interpreted as dissatisfaction with the association between Cristal and the hip-hop crowd. Jay-Z went on to endorse Armand de Brignac Champagne instead, which comes in a gold-plated bottle. Branson B., a Harlem talent manager to many hip-hop stars, has been making his own Champagne for the last three and a half years. Scientists have learned that bubble-trail formation in Champagne glasses is caused by minute particles of dust or lint from drying rags, not from imperfections in hand-blown glass, as many glassmakers claim. (read more)


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