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Here's what it tastes like.We’ve all heard the expression “aging like a fine wine,” which implies that, like the best bottles, certain things get better with time. But what would happen if, say, that aging took place at the bottom of the ocean in a remote location just shy of the Arctic Circle? That’s the question that Norwegian boating company Hurtigruten wanted to test when it partnered with British Rathfinny Wine Estate to lower bottles of its 2018 Classic Cuveé to the ocean floor in hopes of bringing back a higher-quality, more mature product and, if not, to at least...

Dry January might just have to be put on hold. Because an ATM has popped up in Monument and is currently doling out free prosecco to passers-by. It’s in celebration of the launch of a new branch from London wine bar group Vagabond, and as such, it’s being called a ‘Vagabank’. Since Vagabond Monument is opening inside a former Santander Bank in the City, the Vagabank will be taking up position in the space where a real ATM once lived. But instead of dispensing cash, this fancy machine will be handing customers a glass of the sparkling stuff. There seem...

Share Share Tweet Share Pin It Email Comment Print It’s an important distinction, actually. Photo: Elliot Elliot/Getty Images/Johner RF A man in Quebec has filed a class-action lawsuit claiming a Canadian airline inflicted actionable damages by serving him a free glass of sparkling wine that wasn’t Champagne. A skimpy pour isn’t what outraged Daniel Macduff on his Sunwing flight to Cuba for a holiday getaway — it was the fact that he thought he’d been promised Champagne, but he instead spied a bottle that wasn’t marked with the style’s protected appellation. The airline, you see, offers “Champagne service” and “Champagne...

It's been chugging up Mount Washington for nearly 140 years, with a steam engine powered by coal and trailing black smoke. But those days are over: On Saturday, officials at the Mount Washington Cog Railway will unveil a greener locomotive. The new train, which has yet to be named, will run the railway's historic track on a combination of biodiesel and ordinary diesel fuel. To celebrate the newest incarnation of "Old Peppersass" - yes, that is the real name of the railroad's first engine - Gov. John Lynch and his wife, Dr. Susan Lynch, will attend the train's send-off at...

Tucked away in the lea of the South Downs, so isolated that even local villagers barely know it is there, is Nyetimber, the vineyard that has almost single-handedly transformed the reputation of English wines.Started by two eccentric Americans ambitious to compete with the best that the Champagne region has to offer, in less than 20 years it has gained a reputation among aficionados as one of the world's best sparkling wines. It has also spawned a host of imitators across England and created for the first time a future for the domestic wine industry. Now Nyetimber has been taken over...