Hold the Chianti: Tariff Threat Leaves Italian Bottles Grounded
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Hold the Chianti: Tariff Threat Leaves Italian Bottles Grounded

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines All it took was an all-caps social media threat by President Trump to impose a 200 percent tariff on European wine for the shipments of many Brunellos, Chiantis and Proseccos to come to a shuddering halt. In Tuscany, Italy’s most famous wine-exporting region,…

Fear of Trump’s Tariffs Ripples Through France’s Champagne Region
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Fear of Trump’s Tariffs Ripples Through France’s Champagne Region

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines French Champagne producers do nearly a billion dollars’ worth of business with the United States every year. But on Friday in Épernay, the world capital of sparkling wine, the only number on anybody’s lips was 200. That was the percent tariff that President…

Peter Sichel, Wine Merchant With a Cloak-and-Dagger Past, Dies at 102
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Peter Sichel, Wine Merchant With a Cloak-and-Dagger Past, Dies at 102

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Refugee, prisoner, wine merchant, spy: Peter Sichel was many things in his long, colorful life, but he was probably most often identified as the man who made Blue Nun one of the most popular wines in the world in the 1970s and ’80s….