Top 3 Best Paris Cocktail Bars In this Tuesday Tip in About a Minute we give you our top picks for the best Paris cocktail bars. Video Transcript Hi, this is Pascale Bernasse with French Wine Explorers and this is your Tuesday Tip in About a Minute. Parisians are embracing a new trend which is ...

Where Are the Best Paris Champagne Bars? In this Tuesday Tip in About a Minute, we give you our top three choices for the best Paris champagne bars to try on your next visit to the City of Light. (Transcript) Hi, this is Pascale Bernasse with French Wine Explorers and this is your Tuesday Tip ...

Where to Find the Best Paris Wine Restaurants Where are the best Paris wine restaurants? Visitors to Paris seek out wine bars, but for a perfect dining experience, discover the best Paris wine restaurants. This newer trend allows restaurateurs to offer a quality wine and food experience. There ...

Learn French Now: 15 Easy French Phrases If you are planning a trip to France, try learning some easy French phrases before you go. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: “No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits.” Indeed, to understand another person’s culture, ...

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 ...

Paris Michelin Star Restaurants: 2016 At the beginning of every year, the food world stands still – especially in France – to see what’s in the stars for Paris Michelin restaurants. While this year’s Paris Michelin star announcements were darkened by the sad death of World’s Best Chef Benoît ...

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 ...

Luxury Wine Tour Company French Wine Explorers Unveils Newly Designed Website (For immediate release) St. Michaels, Maryland (PRWEB) January 21, 2016. Luxury wine tour company French Wine Explorers begins 2016 with a newly designed website that will enhance viewers’ experiences, and truly ...

Provence markets are numerous and diverse. They range from a few stands of local producers to those offering a wide choice of everything. It can feel difficult to choose where to go! So follow your mood for a rustic or city venue, inland or coastal. The different atmospheres will change the ...

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 ...

Paris Safety Tips: How to stay safe in France’s capitol city As a large capital city, Paris has always held its share of dangers for tourists, but now more than ever, visitors have been asking what they can do to stay safe while visiting the City of Light. Here are our top 10 Paris safety ...

Paris Wine Tasting: Our Top 3 Classes to Take There’s perhaps no place better to learn about the intricacies of wine than France. And while Paris is not a well known producer of wine, it’s definitely home to some of the most zealous tasters. If you want to learn the ins and outs of Paris […]

Paris Michelin Three-Star Dining: Where to Go While in the City of Light It’s no surprise that Paris, as a culinary capital, is home to some of the world’s best restaurants. As of 2015, Paris has 9 three-Michelin-star restaurants to its name. Pierre Gagnaire Pierre Gagnaire’s eponymous Paris ...

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 ...

French Wine Explorers was named as a finalist in the Great Wine Capitals Blogger Contest for 2015. Here is our entry for the contest, taking you on a personal tour inside Bordeaux. A Look Inside Bordeaux Bordeaux could—not too long ago—be likened to an unnoticed little sister of the famously ...

French cheese is one of that country’s best known and loved exports, and with over 350 AOC cheeses to choose from, it can take some time to get to know them! But French cheese really isn’t all that mysterious. Here’s our guide to uncovering the secrets of fromage. Types of Cheese The first ...