Life & Style. Wine & Spirits

2009 Bordeaux: How High Can It Go?

Wonderful wines can be found even among the middle and lower echelons.

Pass the Pastis

One way of saying "I'm in trouble," in French is to declare "Je suis dans le pastis."

Light & Lively: Loire Wines

Look to Loire Valley wines for fresh, fruity, crisp flavor profiles and wines to drink in their youth.

Sophisticated Cider

The French have never met a fruit they couldn't ferment, so the saying goes, and in the pantheon of fermented fruits the apple is second only to the revered grape.

Martinique Rum

Bordeaux: Haut-Brion

A name that sets worldwide connoisseurs of great wine to dreaming.

Armagnac: Amber Paradox

Feisty armagnac may be small, but it punches way above its weight.

Bordeaux: Highly Classified

Has anyone mustered the courage and temerity to catalog or classify the wines of Bordeaux?

Burgundy's Côte de Beaune

Nowhere else in France does the concept of terroir mean more than it does in Burgundy.

Flying Sky High: Grey Goose Vodka

Vodka and France?

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