Tag: Bordeaux wine
-
The Médoc Wine Route: How to Drive Bordeaux’s Grand Cru Country
Drive the Médoc wine route from Bordeaux through Margaux, Pauillac, and Saint-Estèphe. A practical guide to visiting the Grand Cru châteaux.
-
How to Travel France by Train: A Practical Planning Guide
Learn how to travel France by train — from TGV routes and booking tips to Paris stations and scenic journeys. A practical guide for visitors.
-
Dordogne Travel Guide: What to See, When to Go and Where to Stay
The Dordogne Valley rewards every visitor. This Dordogne travel guide covers medieval villages, prehistoric caves, châteaux, food and practical tips.
-
The Ancient Harvest Signal That Bordeaux Has Followed for 800 Years
Discover how Bordeaux’s 800-year-old harvest law still shapes every vintage — and the medieval ceremony in Saint-Émilion that proclaims the new season each September — plus get weekly France stories free in our newsletter.
-
Loire Valley Travel Guide: Châteaux, Wine and the Perfect Road Trip
This Loire Valley travel guide has everything you need — the best châteaux, local wines, scenic routes, and practical tips for visitors from the US and UK.
-
What Happens in a Bordeaux Wine Village When the Harvest Begins
Every September, the villages around Bordeaux transform as the grape harvest begins. Discover the vendange culture — from the long communal lunch to the village fête — and how to experience it yourself.
-
Alsace Wine Route Travel Guide: What to See, Taste and Do
Plan your Alsace Wine Route journey: the best villages, wines to taste, food to try and practical tips for driving France’s most scenic route.
-
The Wine Scandal That Changed How Every Bottle in the World Is Labelled
How a wave of wine fraud across early 20th-century France sparked riots, forced a law, and created the appellation system now copied by every wine-producing country on earth.
-
What Really Happens in Bordeaux When the Harvest Season Begins
Every September, Bordeaux transforms as the harvest begins. Here’s what really happens when tens of thousands of workers descend on France’s wine country.
-
The Forgotten Villages Living Inside Bordeaux’s Greatest Wine Estates
Drive east from Bordeaux on a summer morning and the landscape changes quickly. The suburbs dissolve. The vines begin. And then, almost without warning, you pass through something that no wine map has ever bothered to mark — a village. Stone houses, a church tower, a fountain catching the light. Life, happening between the rows.…