California winemakers’ open secret: They don’t drink their own wines

by Esther Mobley at sfchronicle.com Gianpaolo Paterlini sees a lot of California winemakers at his San Francisco restaurants Acquerello and Sorella. Naturally, winemakers tend to drink wine when they dine out, and Paterlini observes one consistent pattern in their ordering habits. “They never drink American wine,” he said. “Absolutely never.” It’s something of an open secret: Among […]

China cracks down on fentanyl as drug control talks with US restart after Xi-Biden summit

by Liu Zhen at scmp.com China says it is gradually resuming narcotics control talks with the United States and has carried out campaigns against fentanyl production. Drug control agencies of the two countries had resumed regular contact, in keeping with an agreement reached between the US and Chinese presidents last month, the foreign ministry in Beijing said on […]