We were two wine writers in Austria’s Wachau Valley powering through a technical tasting of Rieslings, Gruner Veltliners and Gewurztraminers. Or one of us was. I was seated at a table before a sea of ...

The music icon made history as the first Black woman to win the award for Best Country Album and drank her whisky brand out of the award.

It’s 6.30 on a Saturday evening when the doorbell rings. There, on the step outside our home in County Down, I’m confronted ...

Victoria Hearn is a volunteer and trustee of the Ōtara Gambling and Alcohol Action Group (OGAAG), an advocacy group that has been addressing alcohol harm and gambling concerns in the Ōtara Papatoetoe ...

A British woman and her fiancé died after drinking contaminated limoncello in Vietnam, police have announced. Greta Marie ...

Higher risks come with higher alcohol use. Binge drinking – four or more drinks for women and five or more for men – can significantly increase the likelihood of accidents, alcohol poisoning ...

WOMEN in the world of whisky are as rare as a 50-year-old single malt. But one female founder is making a toast to the lassies this Burns Night as she prepares to open a distillery staffed by an ...

Alcohol affects every body system, so it can cause health problems throughout the body. Research shows that women who drink more alcohol than is recommended on a regular basis tend to develop ...

There are whisky flights, cocktails and cigars (!) too. Just keep tabs on how much you've had to drink — last time we were in, a chap rocked himself backwards right off his stool. Oddly eclectic ...

Now, with a 3-year accelerating trend, "it really feels more like a genuine cultural shift based, not on any morality of alcohol and drinking, but really on a sense that people want a healthy ...

A drunken man who punched a woman after she asked him to leave a pub has been banned from drinking alcohol for 60 days. William Campbell, 37, was in the Black Bull pub on the evening of 20 October ...