The movement towards growing grapes by organic or biodynamic methods is slowly growing in France, and there are now notable examples in Provence. These wines are still single digit in terms of overall production. However, some world famous producers, including the Domaine de la Romanée Conti ...

Provence Wine Tours: Discover the Rosé Wines of Provence Provence wine tours allow you to discover a region with beautiful scenery and many touristic delights. It is also one of France’s leading wine regions, and in the production of rosé wines, Provence is a superpower! Over 80% of the area’s ...

When thinking of filling your wine cellar for the summer, consider Loire Valley wines.  Wine cellars give you flexibility, and a spectrum of wines for your enjoyment. You choose wines when they are most available, and keep them until they are mature. That doesn’t mean that all of your wines are ...

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 ...

I have just conducted a course in tasting French white wines from some of the most famous wine  regions in France. One dozen tasters each contributed $25 to pay for the wines, and we had four sessions, three wines a week. Each tasting featured a progression of wine tastes, and enabled the ...

Here are some tried and tested travel apps we recommend when planning your next trip abroad: don’t leave home without them. NEW!: Never guess again when the best time is to open your bottle of wine: When Wine Tastes Best is a biodynamic calendar for wine drinkers. (Biodynamics is a ...

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 ...

Some fortunate French Wine Explorer travelers have already tasted the summits of fine Burgundy wines. If you haven’t yet, perhaps 2013 will be the year to do so! Meanwhile, the cold nights of winter, and the festivities of the holiday season, form a special mood. It is an ample season when we ...

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 ...

  Discovering Burgundy wine at the source: day Two of our Grand Crus of Burgundy Tour: After a fabulous welcome dinner at Le Benaton – a four-hour extravaganza! – we started the next day nearly recovered from the meal! Our first stop was in Vosne-Romanée at Domaine Arnoux-Lachaux. ...

On the Burgundy Tour featuring the Grand Crus of Burgundy we started with a short introduction to Burgundy, we were off to the Côte de Nuits for a late afternoon tasting extravaganza! Our first stop, Domaine Dujac Père & Fils in Morey-Saint-Denis, is an anomaly in Burgundy because the ...

  It sounds faddish, applying organic or biodynamic techniques to wine production. Yet, the movement is gradually catching on, and several of France’s most eminent wine estates, such as Chapoutier in the Rhône Valley and the Domaine Leflaive in Burgundy, are adherents. What has attracted ...

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 ...

Classification of Wines – What does all mean? The idea of classification of wines, and controlling wines from the standpoint of quality, is not a new idea. Centuries ago the Dukes of Burgundy decided that Gamay was an inferior grape, and banned its production. The Pinot Noir grape was ...

Louis Latour: Beautiful Burgundy Wines to Try Today There’s no better way to discover Burgundy wine than on a wine tour.  While you’re planning your Burgundy  tour and waiting in anticipation for your trip, tasting Burgundy wine at a tasting event is another great way to further ...

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 ...