France is one of the biggest producers of wine in the world, but if you talk to a vintner there, they'll likely get excited about just a few hectares of vines. That's because French wine is ...

Yet Gaul is biting its tongue today after California smoked France Wednesday in a cross-continental tasting of wines that have matured in cellars for three decades. The California Cabernet ...

For all the talk of California and Italy and so on, French wine remains the North Star of the wine world—a guiding light for all others. That can leave the impression that it’s unchanged and ...

Who says the French don’t fight back? For the last few years, much of the French wine industry has been mired in crisis, with thousands of small vintners pushed to the edge of bankruptcy by declining ...

France has earned a reputation for stubborn arrogance in the wine world for boasting of its inimitable terroirs and millennia-old viticultural traditions, while slapping lawsuits on any upstart ...

Swirl a richly colored top-notch glass of Hermitage in your glass, give it a sniff, and then close your eyes. You might just be transported to the sloped wine terraces built directly into the rocky ...

And don’t blame me. Anyone who knows me knows that I have never been one of those people who pines for hot summer days in the middle of winter. I’m the guy you hate in January who’s dancing with ...

In Bordeaux, France, wine vintages for 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2020 were all excellent. If you can sample 2017 wines—considering that most grapes succumbed to a wicked frost that year—you will find ...