Like any other wine region, simply covering “Provence” isn’t adequate. To remedy this blanket thinking, we’ll dive into a very unique appellation: Bellet.
Tag: French wine
French Rules Ease To Help Winemakers Deal With Extreme Weather
French wine producers are now allowed to hold back more stock, following recent losses caused by extreme weather conditions.
A Riesling Experience: Nuanced Terroirs of Alsace
Alsatian Riesling from four soils — the same variety and the same slice of the world, but different land composition.
The Rosé Research Center In Provence is Valuable to the Global Wine Industry
Many rosés are wines of quality, made by winemakers of skill and terroir of distinction. Behind them lies a secret weapon, hidden in an unassuming coral-colored building with green shutters: The Center for Rosé Research.
Mediterranean Bliss: Picpoul-de-Pinet
Picpoul’s naming origin means lip stinger for the acidic bite in the mouth of the drinker — this variety is notably high in acid, particularly for such a hot growing region. This explains what makes the grape unique, responsible for commercial thriving as well as ecological.
Braille on the Label: A Chapoutier Pioneering Moment
The Chapoutier label reveals itself in print and in Braille – the tactile language in which characters are felt by the fingertips rather than seen by the eye.
Crémant Wines Check All the Right Boxes
Crémant wines check all the right boxes: affordable, high-quality, delicious, and diverse. With a robust selection of bottles in the $20-$30 range, crémant is approachable in price and expressive in profile.
Eat, Drink, Travel the South of France: Minervois and Corbières
This month the Winophiles bask in Occitanie – formerly Languedoc-Rousillion – and the AOPs of this rich and extensive region of southern France. January brings us to Minervois and Corbières two French wine AOPs that are celebrated for quality, value, and authenticity.
Help L’Occasion get to Bordeaux
In each category and for each zone, the article that gathers the most votes will win the grand prize, meaning an all-expenses-paid trip to Bordeaux in April 2018 during the famous “en primeur” week.
Dessert Wines from Southern France
Family-run domaines are the standard in the Southern Rhône. Generation after generation maintains cultural and regional wine footprinting while making effort to step them into the world. VDN represents a product that mirrors this balance of yesterday’s ways emerging fresh into a range of new tastes.
But First…Dessert (with the French Winophiles)
The experience of French dessert wines is textural as much as flavorful. The balance of sweet and savory, viscosity and lightness, of freshness and stability…
Before the End of the Year Try French Dessert Wines
In the course of a good year, a wine lover tries dozens of new regions, maybe even hundreds of new bottles. Generally speaking, few of them are likely to be French dessert wines, or dessert wines at all. It is true that they don’t have any sort of quaff-ability, but that’s the nature of the…
No Sleep ’til Beaujolais: The French Wine That’s Been Keeping Us Up All Night
If I’ve timed this post correctly, you’ll be reading a day prior to the 2017 celebration of Beaujolais Nouveau on November 16. This timing is intentional. To catch you off at the pass and interject a new idea just as you were planning to party with some fresh, new Beaujolais. What is Beaujolais? There’s more…
What We’re Drinking: Wines from the South of France {#Winophiles}
Boomerangs, sunscreen, ice cream, adhesive labels, pianos, violins, scooters, slippers and even pool tables are some of the things that are made in Occitanie. For our purposes, the French Winophiles are more interested in the drink that has our affections: wine. Occitanie is the area that many of us call the Languedoc or Languedoc-Rousillion –…
It’s Time for Languedoc Wines
a chance to explore and share the landscape, people, flavors and wine of this beautiful region. Situated near to Provence, Bordeaux and Northern Spain, this region expresses stunning topography and miles and gorgeous vineyards of ever-increasing quality.
