Does wine have a gender? There was a time when tasting notes would refer to a wine as feminine or masculine — a delicate fragrant chablis might be feminine but a big fruity hermitage from the Rhone would always be masculine.

A man suing his stepmother for a €560,000 share of a €3.38m Lotto win has denied he was given a choice between a house or €200,000 from the win.