This is intended to be my final post for this blog. I have had a lot of fun over the past 10 years, from May 2016 (first post) to now (Janua...

I am currently stocking up on my specially brewed Christmas beers, both alcohol-free and otherwise, along with glögg, julmust and svagdricka...

There is much talk these days about alcohol consumption and the extent to which it should be subject to government regulation. There is much...

My wife and I just spent a very nice week as tourists in the south of Portugal. Portugal is a relatively small country, but it does produce ...

We have all read warnings about declining wine consumption over recent years, especially in the USA. There are a few things about this situa...

You may have seen some recent posts about alcohol drinking by chimpanzees. For example: Wild chimps consume the equivalent of two glasses of...

In my professional life I have been a biologist in Australia. I studied at the University of Sydney (B.Sc., and Ph.D.), and I was an academi...

Australia is currently the 12th largest wine market by volume in the world (but the 5th largest wine exporter in the world, as discussed las...

We are being told repeatedly that current world wine consumption is getting lower, as is production, so I thought that it might be interesti...

It is fair knowledge that the Nordic countries except for Denmark (i.e. Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden) have their retail liquor stores ow...

The non-drinker equivalence (NDE) is one measure of the relationship between alcohol consumption and health. It measures the level of alcoho...

I have recently looked at: Long-term (mostly negative) trends in Nordic alcohol consumption . In particular, I have looked at current wine s...

I have recently produced a series of posts about wine availability and consumption in the Nordic countries, pointing out that it is not actu...

I have recently looked at current wine sales in some of the Nordic countries, with their government-owned alcohol retail monopolies (they ar...

I have recently reported that both Swedes ( What countries are best represented in Sweden’s wine retailer monopoly? ) and Norwegians ( How w...

The International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) recently released its annual world industry summary: State of the World Vine and Wine ...