What Makes the Best Food and Wine Pairings? An Essential Guide Pairing food and wine can be a challenge. It is almost a science: determining which food highlights which wine and vice versa or figuring how best to put together a three to five course menu. We take a little bit of the mystery out ...

Provence Rosé Wine and Goat Cheese: A Match Made in Heaven Imagine the summer sun, a picnic with some Provence rosé wine and goat cheese, with fresh bread, tomatoes, olive oil and olives. This is the epitomy of the simplicity and the joie de vivre of Provence life. And it is even better if ...

The Best Travel Tips: An Essential Guide to Great Travel Preparing for travel abroad can be a daunting task. French Wine Explorers is here to help alleviate some of the stress that comes from travel planning. This essential guide includes travel tips from how to plan your trip to what to pack ...

A Look at the Best Bordeaux Wine Harvest Experience In this short video we give you a peek inside our Luxury Bordeaux Harvest Tour, one of our popular small group programs. Perfect for the connoisseur who wants to experience the best Bordeaux wine harvest experience–from grapes to glass. ...

This year, the food world’s most prestigious guide added 70 new stars – 16 more than last year – with 15 Paris Michelin star restaurants alone. This year, the Guide has rewarded “locavorism” in particular, saying that a “double trend” has emerged: one that concentrates on the ...

What are the Best Easter Wine Pairings? There are a range of options for Easter wine pairings-so where do you start? You have enjoyed Easter dinners featuring the classic lamb and Bordeaux wine combination. This year, why not enjoy an Easter or late spring dinner featuring Burgundy wines?  You ...

An Essential Guide to the Best Drinks in Paris So often when we travel we try to find the off-the-beaten-path spots.  We want to find where the locals go so we can truly taste–and drink–the flavor of the locale we are visiting. Over the past few years, we have explored Paris to find ...

The Best Bordeaux Wine Tour: What Makes Our Tours Exclusive How do you have the best Bordeaux wine tour experience? With our Bordeaux wine tour options you see and taste what this amazing region has to offer through the lens of a Bordeaux insider. (Video Transcript) Hi, I’m Pascale Bernasse, ...

The Best French Wine and Comfort Food Pairings With Menus Most of us have favorite recipes we gravitate to during the chilly months of winter. Here are three examples of recipes for wine and comfort food pairings for cold weather dining. Remember, just because the dinner is modest, doesn’t mean ...

Best Paris Macarons: 4 Fantastic Spots to Try Paris is famous for many different pastries. Think of millefeuille, éclairs or the classic croissant. But one of its most popular desserts is doubtlessly the macaron. Paris macarons are deceptively simple little cookies that require a good deal of ...

Pascale Bernasse, President of French Wine Explorers, named Top Travel Specialist for wine tours in France by Condé Nast Traveler magazine for the fifth year in a row. Pascale Bernasse, President of French Wine Explorers, is honored with an enviable spot on the 2016 Condé Nast Top Travel ...

Note: This article on New Year’s Brunch pairings is the 100th blog post written by our Wine Editor, William Shepard. William Shepard has lived extensively in France and speaks French fluently. He taught at the Lycée Jean Giraudoux, Châteauroux (Indre-where Pierre Bernasse is from!) in his ...

This video has suggestions for wine to buy for your Bordeaux wine cellar.  The Best Wines For Your Bordeaux Wine Cellar (Video Transcript) Hi, this is Pascale Bernasse with French Wine Explorers. Our company provides wine tours in France designed exclusively to help wine lovers become ...

Chef Interview: Pairing Wine and Cheese at La Vache Dans les Vignes One of our favorite ways to bring the flavors of French terroir (or sense of place) home is by pairing wine and cheese. This is also the goal of one of our favorite Parisian shops, La Vache dans les Vignes (the cow in […]

Best Paris Crêpes & Galettes: Where We Love to Eat Did you know that crêpes are a regional specialty? While commonly associated with France in general, crêpes actually hail from Brittany. They come in two forms: Savory crêpes–more often called galettes–are made out of buckwheat ...

Cote de Beaune Wines: Perfect for a Fall Picnic Summer is virtually a memory. Although not entirely a pleasant one for those who have experienced record heat. But after Labor Day, we look forward to–and have been enjoying–more temperate weather. And wines with more heft than we ...