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Two chemical tankers, the Yara J and Wine Trader, caught fire near Romania's Sulina canal after drones were detected in Romanian airspace between October 14-15, with the Yara J struck inside Romania's territorial waters. Seven crew remain missing from the Wine Trader, while a bulk carrier and another tanker were also reportedly targeted, bringing the total number of ships attacked in NATO members' waters to at least seven.
A gang of at least seven masked robbers broke into a Marchesi Antinori storage facility near Cortona, Italy, disabling alarms and cameras before using the company's own forklifts to load roughly 30,000 bottles onto two trucks. The haul, valued at about $5.8 million, included around 10,000 bottles of Solaia plus Tignanello and Guado al Tasso from the 2023 vintage, each normally priced between $167 and $558.
California vineyard owners report they cannot find buyers for large portions of this year's wine grape harvest, as US and global wine consumption has fallen more than 20% over five years. Growers say roughly a quarter of the state's vineyards are being taken out of production, with some leaving grapes to rot or replacing vines with crops like almonds and pistachios. Lodi-area grower Bill Berryhill says he cannot sell grapes from 200 of his 500 acres and plans to remove 50 acres after harvest.
Elizabeth Banks, who holds the title of chief creative officer at canned wine maker Archer Roose, argues that wine brands must shed their formal, elitist image to attract a broader range of drinkers. She traces her interest to a moment tubing down a river in Utah while drinking a canned beverage, which led her toward championing more casual, approachable wine marketing.
A newly published Nix flake automates installing Microsoft 365 (click-to-run Office) on Linux without a virtual machine, using the umu-launcher tool alongside GE-Proton, the gaming-focused Wine build from Valve and GloriousEggroll, with Bottles' ProtoSoda Wine core offered as an alternative runner. The project doesn't bundle any Microsoft software itself; instead its ms365 script fetches the Office Deployment Tool and Office files at install time, requiring users to supply their own Microsoft 365 license and sign in. The approach builds on prior community work, including Bottles' reports of Office 365 running on Wine and older ruados/eylenburg registry and DLL tweaks.
Actor and entrepreneur Elizabeth Banks joined Archer Roose, a canned wine company, as an investor and chief creative officer. Alongside founder and CEO Marian Leitner-Waldman, she has taken an active role in reshaping the brand's marketing and public image within the traditional wine industry.
A homebrew project called Wine-NX ports Wine 11 to the Switch's Horizon OS, letting it run x86 Windows games via Box64's ARM64 translation and Mesa's nouveau graphics driver. Demonstrations show Need for Speed Underground 2 playing at 20-45fps, OpenTTD hitting 60fps, Quake III Arena running around 37fps at 720p, and WarCraft III partially functional with menus and cutscenes working.
Darling is an open-source translation layer, comparable to Wine for Windows, that allows macOS software to run on Linux systems. Built on Apple's freely released Darwin source code along with components from The Cocotron and GNUstep, it now offers basic experimental support for graphical applications and can also run under Windows via WSL 2.
National Red Wine Day is set for Friday, August 28, 2026, marking a seasonal shift from summer whites to heartier red wines. Various retailers, restaurants and wineries are expected to mark the occasion with discounts, tastings and promotional offers.
CD Projekt Red will spend Gamescom week showcasing Songs of the Past, a new Witcher 3 expansion co-developed with Fools Theory that matches Blood and Wine in scope with roughly 30 hours of content. The studio also confirmed The Witcher 4, centered on Ciri instead of Geralt, is targeting a 2028 release, though executives hedged on the timeline.