The Canadian taste for wine has developed so far that a New Brunswick vintner wants permission to offer samples in local farmers' markets.

That great post-secondary winter sport, traybogganing, may fall victim to the push to save money at universities and colleges.

A vintage vehicle set a record when it sold over the weekend for $7.92 million US at an auction in Florida, auction house Gooding & Co. said.

An unidentified Russian billionaire is shelling out a record €500 million — or $793 million Cdn — for a luxury villa on the French Riviera, according to media reports.

A new variety of premium grapes debuted in Japan on Monday, with a single bunch fetching as much as $910 US.
A Japanese hotel manager paid that amount, or about $26 per grape, for a 700-gram bunch of the Ruby Roman grapes to serve guests at an upscale hotel, officials said.

Spanish magicians have invented a device that will have wine snobs crying in their glasses.