The Bordeaux vineyard is full of wine estates each one more captivating than the last. Nowadays, most of them put in place wine touristic activities to enable amateurs to discover more closely their stories. However, the Bordeaux vineyard gather different appellations with distinctives features. Discover what you can...
For many years, France has been recognized for its know-how and the quality of its products. Even though the Russian people are not always to be okay with the rest of the world, they also, in the 90s saw France as the bests in the world in terms of wine. The Russian population was looking for luxurious French wines and...
We all dream of identifying all flavours in a wine in order to seem more pro in front of our friends. It is true that it isn’t an easy task. However, there are some tricks to help you to smell or at least guess what flavours there are in your glass of wine. What are the different notes in wines? First of all, it is...
Champagne is the festive wine. Most of the time, we open a bottle of Champagne for special occasions, Christmas and New Year’s celebrations. It is usually drunk during the aperitive; but did you know that a bottle of Champagne can match with an entire meal? How to choose a Champagne for a meal? Before going into an...
Usually, rosé wines announce the coming of fine weather, it opens the summer months, meal with friends, barbecues, pre-dinner drinks … When we talk about rosé, we immediately image the south of France, which represent leisure, holidays … A peaceful and good time image. However, rosé wine has been for a long time...
We all know the Sauternes, this really sweet dessert wine, that we drink most of the time for Christmas and for New Year with foie gras. But today, you are going to rediscover this wine and relearn to pair it. Sauternes – Foie gras, is it really a good wine and food paring? Wine pairing with caviar at Château...
Frost and its damages on the vines. Frost represent a real disaster for the vines because it can destroy all of futures harvests. Winegrowers constantly monitor vines temperatures thanks to probes and when these are triggered at 0°C; they must find solutions to warm up the atmosphere so that the buds do not...
What is the future’s wine? It is quite simple; it is the climate change’s wine. Indeed, we can already feel the global warming changes in the wine sector and other transformations are coming… What are the consequences of the global warming on the vine? Grape harvest at Château Malartic Lagravière in...
