French Wine Explorers’ website again received top honors, a Gold Award, in the prestigious 2010 Magellan competition. The travel industry’s premiere awards, the Magellan Awards are presented annually Travel Weekly magazine.This is French Wine Explorers’ second Magellan Gold Award, having ...

Care to buy some fine wines before they are even bottled? It is a well known practice, enabling wine producers recoup their costs early. Wine retailers are now sending around notices that wine futures for the heralded 2009 Bordeaux vintage are now available. A wine futures contract locks in a ...

French Wine Explorers has been named as one of the world’s best wine tours by Travel + Leisure magazine, as well as a dream vacation experience by Wine Enthusiast magazine. Travel + Leisure’s September issue applauds French Wine Explorers for their focus and accessibility to the top wine ...

French Wine Explorers has a new Facebook fan page! We hope you’ll join on our French Wine Explorers Fan Page to keep up to date on our news, be the first to hear about tours and specials, enjoy gorgeous photos, and, of course, learn more about France and its wines. Thank you so much to […]

How To Make the Most of Your French Winery Tours There is always a wonderful sense of occasion behind French winery tours. Why not let this be the year that you visit a wine château or two? You deserve it, and you will deepen your appreciation for fine wines. You will long remember entering ...

One of my favorite wine tour memoriesis a bicycle trip through Alsace some forty years ago. It was a hot summer day, and we cycled through picturesque villages, some with storks nesting on the roofs of half-timbered houses. We came to the town of Riquewihr, and were welcomed at what local ...

The Loire Valley is a region of architectural treasures, with scenery that will delight you at every turn. And since the purest French is spoken at Tours, no wonder famous writers such as Balzac, Ronsard, Rabelais and Jules Verne have lived here, and taken the Loire Valley as a setting for ...

It was a monk, Dom Perignon, who mastered the blending of wines (assemblage) that underlies modern Champagne. Equally important, he realized that the bottles used at the time were too fragile. They broke under the outer pressures of handling, and the inner effervescence of the wine. By ...

If you have not yet visited the champagne region of France, 90 miles northeast of Paris, you have a great treat in store. The region of Reims, Epernay, Ay and Troyes is beautiful, easily accessible from Paris, and still not overrun by tourists. As a bonus, Reims Cathedral with its Marc Chagall ...

Before the Easter holidays, we had the pleasure of hosting good friends at our house for dinner and to reminisce about our wine tour in France, and we ended our meal with homework. I had just received a sample box of Michel Cluizel Chocolates and decided to put them to the taste test to see ...

All of these terms are sometimes used loosely and in many cases have no official definition. Certified organic wines, for example, actually have different meanings depending on the country of origin. Here’s a quick guide: Culture raisonnée or lutte raisonnée: Often translated as reasoned ...

Sunny Languedoc-Roussillon, said to be the most productive wine producing region on earth, hugs the Mediterranean coastline. We are not talking about the historic Languedoc, which is well worth exploring on its own. That region, whose capital was Toulouse, roughly marked the area where “Oc” ...

Atout France Award Honors French Wine Explorers St. Michaels, Md. (November 12, 2009) – Luxury wine tour company French Wine Explorers was recently awarded the prestigious Atout France Award by France’s Tourism Development Agency, Atout France. French Wine Explorers, which offers intimate ...

For Immediate ReleaseSt. Michaels, Md. (Sept. 9, 2009) – Luxury wine tour company French Wine Explorers has received Travel Weekly’s coveted Magellan Gold Award for best consumer website. French Wine Explorers’ website reflects the boutique firm’s upscale brand with its clean white space and ...

Our wine tours to France are crafted to the individual needs of our clients based on their vision or idea of their ideal vacation. Custom designing each and every tour is labor intensive, requires creativity, and is subject to factors beyond our control. And that is exactly why we love what we ...

Let’s say that you enjoy a glass of French wine from time to time, and would like to know more about them. You have heard that well aged French wines are superb, but you do not yet know which wines they are, how much they cost, where they come from, and when to drink them. […]