Bordeaux winegrower Chateau Latour will pull out of the traditional "en primeur" or futures market, a vital part of the region's commercial strategy, in a move geared to Asian markets, industry ...
Château Franc Mayne is one of our absolute favourites in Bordeaux. The small chateau is in Saint Emilion, on the famous limestone plateau. The picturesque medieval town of Saint Emilion is nearby and ...
This story is from an installment of The Oeno Files, our weekly insider newsletter to the world of fine wine. Sign up here. Situated to the side of the D’Issan estate and bordered by the vineyards of ...
Bordeaux: It's one of the most historic, beautiful, and traditional wine regions in the world. There, châteaux dot the countryside surrounding the Garonne and Dordogne rivers, and the famed vintage ...
Wines really are given a distinct identity by the place where their grapes are grown and the wine is made, according to an analysis of red Bordeaux wines. Alexandre Pouget at the University of Geneva, ...
When she was a teenager Nea Berglund travelled from Finland down to Bordeaux to pick grapes at her father’s wine estate at harvest time. Now she is in charge, lives here fulltime. Listening to her ...
On April 10, 1663, the English diarist Samuel Pepys made history. Earlier that day, at London’s Royal Oak Tavern, he had drunk “a sort of French wine,” he recorded, “called Ho Bryan, that hath a good ...
Gaïa, the brand-new tasting space at Château Smith Haut Lafitte, is now part of the visitor's tour of the Martillac estate (Gironde). QC All of them reported a multifaceted crisis in the region, and ...
To reflect the restrictive winemaking regulations in the French region of Bordeaux, Norwegian studio OlssønBarbieri set itself constraints when coming up with a playful brand identity and packaging ...
Some of my earliest, fondest wine memories involve Bordeaux. Once or twice a year (Christmas and sometimes Thanksgiving) my father’s father would open an amazing red wine from this magical wine region ...
A Chinese property investment company has acquired French wine estate Chateau Fauchey on the right bank of the Garonne river southeast of Bordeaux, according to an emailed statement from ...