French Wines Articles

Wine storage is something that you either do right, or don’t do at all. To be able to cellar wine effectively you must have unadorned stable conditions. If you don’t take care so that your hard earned french wine bottles sit in proper conditions you are prone to open the door to a disaster. There aren’t many houses that have a real wine cellar, however people usually go with purpose-built  [ Read More ]

Champagne lies just east of Paris. At the first look it might seem as though Champagne is just another one of France’s awesome wine making regions. Don’t mean to say it isn’t, but there’s a little more to it than that. While Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot have been successfully cultivated in many areas other than Bordeaux and Burgundy, some examples are Napa Valley in California and Coonawarra in Australia, there  [ Read More ]

You think you know wine? You can’t say that until you know French wine. And what’s the best place to get a feel for some of the best wines in the world? Bordeaux, of course. Bordeaux is a wine region in western France, situated on the Atlantic coast. It makes some 26 percent of all AOC wine. The region produces mainly red wines, about 83 percent, dry reds to be more precise.  [ Read More ]

The Alsace wine region is renowned for it’s excellent white wines. The thing about this is, there are many wine regions that produce very good white wines, but what makes Alsacian wines so exquisite is the fact that the grape varieties grow only in this specific region and nowhere else. Some basic information about Alsace Alsace is located in France, more specifically in the north east of France. Even more  [ Read More ]

Burgundy is one of the famous regions of France. However, unlike some of it’s brothers and sisters it produces only pure and unsullied wine, without any of the blending we may find in Bordeaux and Champagne. If we overlook Gamay for a moment, we will see that Burgundy has only two principal players when it comes to wine making. For white wines we have Chardonnay, and for red wines we  [ Read More ]

France is and always has been the queen of wine. If you ever wonder why that happened, picture a bunch of people getting a 1000 years head start on everyone else to experiment with. The fact that France has been growing wine for more than 2000 years, coupled with the fact that France has arguably the best climate to grow wine grapes on earth, it’s a no brainer. Savoy is  [ Read More ]

For the longest time France has been known to be the best in the wine making business. While recently other countries are starting to catch up, France remains the queen of wine. France is divided into many regions, we will only explore the most famous. In alphabetical order: Region 1 – Alsace Famous as a white wine region Alsace also produces  red, rose, sweet wines as well as sparkling wines.  [ Read More ]