Bordeaux, France News

MonkeyMedia Software, a provider of web-based operations solutions for the foodservice industry, today announced that La Boulange has selected MonkeyCatering to help develop the bakery's first catering program with online ordering and end-to-end production management.

NO CHOICE:: Producers of wine are investing early in sustainable techniques as the industry prepares for strict new rules to be rolled out in the next 10 years AFP, BORDEAUX, FRANCE Monday, Jun 29, 2009, Page 11 Clean vineyards, green wines and lighter bottles? Many in the global wine and spirits business believe their only chance of long-term ...

A baby girl from Warrington who had an eyelid tumour that nearly blinded her, has had it removed by a drug usually used for heart defects.

Carla Capalbo Bordeaux's new oenology university and research institute, Institut des Sciences de la Vigne et du Vin, Bordeaux Aquitaine , has finally opened.

Combinations of procedures to terminate persistent atrial fibrillation are associated with improved long-term outcomes, according to a report in the May European Heart Journal.

The former socialist president Francois Mitterrand, who died of cancer in 1996, left behind a clan which has spanned French political and cultural life.

BORDEAUX, France: Much to the glee of French winemakers, China confirmed its passion for red wine within the first 24 hours of the opening of the world's largest wine exhibition here at Vinexpo.

The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and the BEM Bordeaux Management School in Bordeaux, France, have established a Degree Program Partnership at the master's level that allows for the transfer of credits between schools.

BORDEAUX, France: A Chinese firm has taken a majority stake in a Bordeaux vineyard, the latest move by the emerging Asian giant into the world of French wine, a company who advised on the deal said on Sunday.

This weekend celebrates Father's Day. With Dad in charge of the day's menu, many will opt for a big, juicy steak on the grill.

English prince also called Edward Of Woodstock, Prince D'aquitaine, Prince Of Wales, Duke Of Cornwall, Earl Of Chester born June 15, 1330, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, Eng.

Niagara is well-established. The Okanagan Valley is gaining steam. Prince Edward County and Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley are notable upstarts.

In the world of wine-speak, the only words used more frequently than 'currants' and 'cassis' are 'Old World' and 'New World.' Wine aficionados are referring to the apparently dramatic difference in styles between the wines of California, New Zealand and Australia and those from most of Europe .

Warren Templeton, 54, was found guilty of cheating British pensioners and other foreigners living in France's sunny Dordogne region out of their life savings by posing as a financial advisor.

He lived in a French manor house and drove around the Dordogne in vintage cars. Among his previous girlfriends, he claimed, was the fashion designer Karen Millen.

Massimo Introvigne first encountered what he considered "exotic" faiths in a six-volume encyclopedia of religion he bought in 50-cent installments when he was 9. The young Italian was entranced further by his mother's reports of strange beliefs from her visits to Bali, Polynesia and India and by teenage fiction about Haiti and the mysterious world ...

Claude Canellas Bordeaux, France - Friday, Jun. 05, 2009 03:45AM EDT P rices for top Bordeaux wines of the most recent harvest, the so-called 2008 " primeurs, " have dropped markedly as big wine buyers turn cautious in the current economic crisis.

If the South of France has become known as the "new" New World of wine, the south-west is its new old world.

Dave DeSimone is a member of the American Wine Society. He can be heard daily on KQV Radio with the Wine Cellar reports.

A private residence in Bordeaux, France, designed by architect Rem Koolhaas / OMA in 1994 and completed in 1998 is the focus of a 58-minute film by Italian-French independent film production company BekaFilms.