The Best French Wine and Comfort Food Pairings With Menus Most of us have favorite recipes we gravitate to during the chilly months of winter. Here are three examples of recipes for wine and comfort food pairings for cold weather dining. Remember, just because the dinner is modest, doesn’t mean ...

Buying a Vineyard in Provence: Outsiders Turning Their Dreams into Reality How many of us dream of buying a vineyard in Provence? Do you dream of olive groves and vines, a grand chateau, and bottles of your own Provence wine and olive oil? Many outsiders—art dealers, industrialists, law ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 […]

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Top 3 Picks for Paris Wine Bars You might think that wine bar and Paris go hand-in-hand, but that wasn’t necessarily always the case. While we often find ourselves imagining that luxurious, perfectly chic locale where wine and food come together in perfect harmony, many wine bars in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When it comes to pairing food and wine, you’ve probably got it all figured out — from red meat to white meat, fish and seafood, cheese and probably even dessert. But some cuisines are more difficult to pair with wine than others; Chinese is one of these. Pairing French wine with ...