Sometime later this summer, when I have ploughed my way through another 100 pages of paperwork and weaved through a bewildering slalom of French bureaucracy, I will have realised a dream. I am buying ...

Bordeaux is one of the most important wine regions in the world. Bordeaux the wine region surrounds Bordeaux the city. There is a very important river called the Gironde that divides the region into ...

Visitors to Bordeaux’s tiny and ancient wine city of Saint Émilion are often mystified: where are the wine bars? Because of a long cultural tradition of pairing wine with food, as well as beguiling, ...

The region has a viticultural heritage going back to Roman times and produces some of the world’s most sought after Bordeaux wine. “Wine is the most civilised thing in the world,” wrote Ernest ...

Bordeaux is not only about big, famous chateaux in Médoc. If you cross the rivers to the right bank you will find a myriad of smaller chateaux, often with less than 10 hectares of vineyards. Often ...

You wouldn’t think anyone would be clamoring to spend hours bent over picking grapes. But a lot of people did just that at one of the most prestigious vineyards in France. In fact, at one of France’s ...

ST.-EMILION, France — Chateau Figeac, a treasure of Bordeaux, is only about 2 miles from the center of this medieval village, but take a cell phone if you visit. You will see signs for Rocher-Bellevue ...

Saint-Émilion, with its honey-colored château, narrow cobbled streets and ancient ecclesiastical heritage, has always felt a world away from the grand, Cabernet Sauvignon-dominated vineyards of the ...

Forty kilometres from Bordeaux at the market town of Libourne, the road crosses the lazy, swan-paddled Dordogne River. Then houses and convenience stores peel away and rolling countryside appears, ...