Organic wines are becoming more and more popular. Even the ultra-traditional Bordelais are doing it. Driving north from Bordeaux on the Médoc peninsula you pass a number of famous wine chateaux. As ...
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 ...
Set to make its grand debut tomorrow in the sleepy village of Bommes (not far from legendary Château d’Yquem), the property was acquired by Lalique president and CEO Silvio Denz back in 2014. As a ...
Jack Ma has purchased a vineyard and château in Bordeaux, France. Agence France-Presse reported that the Alibaba founder purchased Chateau de Sours, a vineyard that produces wines at the cheaper end ...
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 ...
“We are back.” Nico­las Audebert is announcing the return to prominence of two historic vineyards in the Bordeaux heartland of French winemaking—Château Rauzan-Ségla and Château Canon—both of which he ...
AMONG THE ROLLING ROWS of vines at Château Latour, Vincent Faux sets his eyes on four. These are the last of 800,000 plants to prune in advance of the 2015 vintage; the 52-year-old Faux, in his 36th ...
A few years ago in Paris, at a party for T&C at the American ambassador's ornate Right Bank residence, I noticed, among the politely murmuring crowd, what I can only describe as an ...
When her father died in 1980, Corinne Mentzelopoulos inherited a business empire that included 1,600 grocery stores, 80 buildings in central Paris, a hotel that was once the home of Louis XIV—and a ...
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, ...