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Our Wine Editor’s Picks: The Best Bordeaux Wines For Your Wine Cellar Would you like to have a Bordeaux wine cellar? There are several starting points for choosing the best Bordeaux wines for your cellar. First, stock your cellar with wines that you will enjoy. Don’t limit yourself to one region. And if reasons to […]

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Sancerre Wine: The Best Whites to Drink Now! 2012 Chateau de Sancerre 2012  Jean-Marc Crochet Sancerre Cellier de la Thibaude 2015  Gerard Boulay Sancerre Chavignol 2013 . (The Boulay wine is produced on the Chavignol slopes. It goes with Chavignol goat cheese from exactly the same region.) Sancerre Delaporte 2013  Fist, let’s ...

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Pouilly-Fumé White Wines (Not to Confuse With Pouilly-Fuissé)! Pouilly-Fumé and Pouilly-Fuissé may sound similar, but they are not! Last month’s excursion was to the land of Muscadet wine, where the Loire meets the Atlantic Ocean. Let’s continue the wine tour at the Upper Loire, where Sauvignon Blanc grapes predominate. ...

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Muscadet wine and history blend in the Northern Loire Valley of France. This is a favored wine for seafood and the finest wine for oysters. This wine is produced throughout the region, where the Loire River meets the sea. Yet it is worth remembering that the grape of Muscadet, the Melon de Bourgogne, is a rather thin grape. […]

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Chinon & Bourgueil: Wines to Cellar, Savor & Crave Now When you are in the beautiful Loire Valley, you are never far from history. That is certainly true in the Central Loire town of Chinon. The Castle of Chinon traces at least to the eleventh century, and is cited throughout the history of both England […]

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Sancerre Reds from the Loire Valley It turns out that writing this column is good for my health! At this wintry moment, as I recall how I would much rather be in the Loire Valley–more specifically Sancerre–one of the most beautiful areas on earth, a blizzard has hammered the East Coast, and we have had […]

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Graves Region: What to Buy Now Bordeaux white wines are nearly always a blend of Semillon and Sauvignon Blanc grapes, unlike the Chardonnay grapes which are used exclusively for the white wines of Burgundy. This blend encourages the winemaker’s art, with Sauvignon Blanc (with its high sugar content) typically yielding aroma and ...

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Bordeaux Twin Vintages: Some of Bordeaux’s Finest Years It all began in the distant past, the 1899 Bordeaux vintage. It had been a very hot summer, and the wine produced was excellent, the best within the memory of many lovers of fine Bordeaux. The following year, a sort of wine miracle took place, for the 1900 […]

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Chateauneuf-du-Pape Wines Why do I love Chateauneuf-du-Pape Wines? The first French wine I ever ordered with dinner was at a small French restaurant in New York. I was spending a short fall vacation with a fraternity brother, seeing as many Broadway shows as we could afford. The restaurant was his favorite, and when it came […]

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Riesling Wine: Tasting From France and Germany Readers will recall that my fondness for the Riesling wine of Alsace began at Riquewihr, when I enjoyed cool Sylvaner wine in a chilly cave of the Hugel firm one sweltering August. Riesling wine has another pleasant association for me, when my family first shared my enthusiasm for […]

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Graves Wine Region in France: What Red Wines to Try The great wines of the Medoc are well known, in large part because of the celebrated 1855 Classification. Other regions of Bordeaux, gauging the success of that famous classification, have in this century added their own. St. Emilion and the Graves are famous examples. In […]

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Discover Nuits-Saint-Georges Wine Following the Vosne-Romanee region to the south, the Nuits-Saint-Georges portion of Burgundy is the last region of the Côte de Nuits, for which it provides the name. It is not a large region, barely 750 acres, and of that total, some 360 acres are in production for the famous premier cru vineyards ...

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Bordeaux wines and wines from the Burgundy region give those who enjoy great wines good reason to travel to France—to savor wines from two of the greatest wine producing regions of the world. Each has its partisans, but many wine lovers enjoy them equally, while bearing in mind that they are very different regions, with […]

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The Best French Wines I’ve Ever Tasted I still remember my first enjoyable taste of French wine. I was a teenager, on a bicycle tour of Alsace, and it was a stifling August afternoon. We cycled through the mountainous region and then onto a scenic valley, finally reaching the impossibly beautiful half-timbered town of ...

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St Estèphe wines, from the northernmost segment of the Médoc region which is north of Bordeaux, are well known by wine connoisseurs. It is a pretty region, ranging along the river, and it is rife with history. These wines are said to be deeper than neighboring Pauillac, perhaps because the region has more clay subsoil […]

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Offering French wine gifts (besides a wine tour!) during the Holiday season is an idea whose time has arrived. Whether as a gift or for a special occasion, your thoughtfulness will be hailed by the lucky recipient! Our Top French Wine Gifts Sparkling Wines: For a fine sparkling wine, you might choose an Albrecht Brut NV […]

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