Source: Chateau-Lagrange.comChâteau Lagrange, Grand cru classé de Saint-Julien, innovates with optical sorting out of the grapes and opens its new vats room refurbished with 32 small vats for a better plots selection. The next harvest at Château Lagrange reveal themselves in the era of ...

Travel Reviews: Bon Appétit Selects French Wine Explorers For Travel Board (Press Release from French Wine Explorers) Luxury wine tour company French Wine Explorers is the newest addition to Bon Appétit magazine’s Travel Board, an elite group that represents all major luxury culinary travel ...

Our Wine Editor, Bill Shepard, has lived extensively in France and speaks French fluently. A college French major, Bill then had a Fulbright grant and taught at the Lycée Jean Giraudoux, Châteauroux (Indre). During his leisure hours, Bill served as translator at châteaux tours throughout the ...

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 ...

Ultimate Paris Tour Packages for Wine Lovers We are proud to announce exclusive tours of Paris, the City of Light, combined with your favorite wine region in France! Have you been looking to go to Paris and combine the trip with wine country in France?  These new and exciting Paris tour ...

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 ...

Since I was in Paris for a few days, I really wanted to share some time with one of our guides based there.   Mary has been leading wine tours in France for wine professionals and enthusiasts for many years: in Champagne, the Loire and Rhône Valleys, Languedoc and Provence. Fully bilingual ...

Source: Decanter.com Saint-Emilion classification ditched March 17, 2009 Rebecca Gibb The 2006 Saint Emilion classification will be scrapped, the French Court of Appeal has ruled. A judgement claimed the system was unlawful in July 2008 and an appeal by the eight promoted properties, the Saint ...

Food and Wine Pairing Like a Pro Which wine tastes best with pork chops in a maple glaze? Does rosemary-marinated grilled halibut invite red or white wine? Are there also great food pairings for beer, spirits, cocktails, coffee and tea? To answer these questions and thousands more, the web site ...

La Maison Bord’eaux under new ownership Pierre Lurton probably has one of the most envied jobs in in the wine world–he is President of two of Bordeaux’s top properties: Cheval Blanc, First growth of Saint Emilion and Château d’Yquem, first growth Superior of Sauternes, ...

  From June 13th to Septembre 23rd Exhibition Exhibition “The Jurade of Saint-Emilion, 1948-2008” Collegiate Cloister From May 1st-3rd Open doors in the Saint-Emilion wine estates Open door days in the Saint-Emilion, Saint-Emilion Grand Cru, Lussac Saint-Emilion, and Puisseguin ...

Paris Wine Bars, Restaurants, and Romance This year, Valentine’s Day has inspired me to think about when I was living in Paris with my now husband. It was a great time, we lived in the heart of Paris and I could walk to my job in the Marias district. Paris is the most romantic city […]

A Visit to Two Great Bordeaux Chateaux Subject: Bordeaux Prestige Tour day 3 Pessac-Leognan and Sauterne. It is a pristine spring day in Bordeaux. There’s not a cloud in the sky. The grape vines are happy as they gather sunshine and nutrients to flower in early June, and so am I! Our ...

9 Reasons Why You Should Take a French Wine Tour I am inundated daily with offers for getaways, and most give me the same feeling: uninspired. I want to go somewhere and take a part of it back with me. I want to learn, expand my horizons, be surprised and feel fulfilled. Wine tours can […]

Champagne France Region: How to Discover This Sparkling Area We made a last minute decision to go to Champagne France Region for the holidays-secretly, for selfish reasons, as Pierre’s family was gathering in Soissons, close to Reims.  I couldn’t resist the urge to go, so we packed up our ...

I am not one for air travel (or any travel) during the holidays.  But I was inspired this year to bite the bullet, and go with the family to the Champagne region for the Christmas holidays. This may be one of the best times to travel to Europe.  The Euro is at a respectable level […]