St. Michaels, Md. (May 9, 2013) ––French Wine Explorers has introduced two new ways for guests to celebrate France’s legendary wine regions: cycling and culinary excursions. Both bicycle and culinary tourism allow travelers a more intimate travel experience, as cooking and biking ...

Please welcome Bill Eyer of Cuvee Corner for a feature on affordable Bordeaux wines.  The motto of his blog is “The intersection of where great wine meets reasonable prices”.  I was intrigued by his take on French wines and asked him to write an article on what he would recommend ...

Sauternes, a dessert wine with varying sweetness, was one of the world’s favorite wines a century ago. These wines, from the Sauternes and Barsac region south of Bordeaux, are  now making a comeback, having suffered from the general urge to trim calories. A little goes a long way, so start with ...

How to Get to Bordeaux by Car, Train or Plane Bordeaux is a major city in the South of France and is: – Less than 3 hours from Paris by TGV (22 return journeys per day) – 45 minutes from the Atlantic Ocean – 2 hours from Spain – 20 minutes from the Bordeaux-Mérignac ...

Discovering the wines of Margaux, the region and its properties, could well be the highlight of your trip to Bordeaux. Margaux is the largest of the six regions of the Médoc, and the farthest south. The 1,479 lucky people who live there reside in one of the most famous wine making regions on ...

Bordeaux Wines Best Affordable Bordeaux to Drink Now Sometimes it seems that all we hear is the high price of great Bordeaux wines. The Asian market, for example, has lifted the price of Bordeaux First Growths to unbelievable levels. The national television news this week carried the story of a ...

Wine Society: Bordeaux and Burgundy How To Gain Entrée Into a Wine Society San Diego is home to chapters of several world-renowned wine societies where swirling, sniffing, sipping and slurping are practiced with aplomb. Members regularly gather celebrating the vine in all its gustatory and ...

Our last blog article featured the great wines of St. Emilion.  We continue our journey in the Bordeaux region and head for Pomerol.         Pomerol, population 848, is famous for several matters related to its excellent wine. First, the wines have not been officially classified, which is a ...

Wine tours to Bordeaux are not complete without a visit to St. Emilion. The perfect Sunday excursion from Bordeaux is to drive an hour and a half through the countryside to St. Emilion. Enjoy the scenery of the town and its wine estates, and then savor a leisurely luncheon in the old hilltop ...

We have all heard that prices for Bordeaux first growths have gone through the roof. These five fine wines now average, as futures, $800-$1100 per bottle. If you add the comparable great wines of St. Emilion and Pomerol, Cheval Blanc, Ausone and Petrus, the outer limit may be $1250 or so. What ...

Bill Shepard, Wine Editor With prices for Bordeaux grands crus wines spiraling out of sight, wine lovers want to get the most for their money. What the French call “le rapport qualité/prix” is more important than ever. One good strategy is to explore the world of second wines now being made by ...

You may not be able to do all the things on our top 10 list of must do’s for Bordeaux, but you can certainly try! 1. Try the wine: There are over 9,000 wine estates in Bordeaux, make sure you visit the best ones by touring with us! 2. Visit the city of Bordeaux: a […]

In the hot summer weather, there is a spectrum of fine French white wines to savor. Light or medium weight, the emphasis should be on flavors, and complementing your dining choices. Clearly, many meals are going to be informal. Uncomplicated, flavorful wines will set them off perfectly. With a ...

Each year in June in Bordeaux the flowering of the vines is celebrated with a major event in the region’s social calendar: the Fête de la Fleur, or Flower Festival. This is a gala dinner organized by the Commanderie du Bontemps du Médoc et des Graves, the winemakers’ fraternity for ...

Rose Wines From Bordeaux? This is one of the hot new trends we are seeing coming out of Bordeaux – dry pink wines. Many folks in this country are afraid of pink wines, the fear is that they will be sweet a la White Zinfandel. Well contrary to popular belief the greatest pink wines are ...

During my last visit to Bordeaux earlier this month, I stopped by to visit La Winery after meeting one of it’s representatives in Paris the day before. The concept is the lasted venture of Philippe Raoux, a 4th generation wine merchant who was inspired by what he saw in Napa. The multi-million ...