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Yann Bertrand with his demi-muid's of Beaujolais primeur Fleurie's Yann Bertrand made a Beaujolais Nouveau this year from fr...

Max Breton's team at the end of day in his old vines at Saint Joseph in Morgon. Anything I post on the blog right now will rightful...

Négoçiants tend to suffer from an enthusiasm gap among wine drinkers. Compared with the vigneron who grows the grapes he or she turns int...

I first heard of Blacé-based Beaujolais vigneron Sylvère Trichard while putting together Paris By Mouth's annual " Beaujola...

The tiny cellar space that Balmet shared with his father until this year. Conventional wisdom of Beaujolais geography places the high...

When I spoke to Ô Divin Epicerie proprietor Naoufel Zaïm last January, he mentioned he'd soon be turning a nearby defunct clothing s...

Far-flung Lyonnais wine bistrot Le Fleurie  exists in a wonderful parallel universe where the old Léon Daudet chestnut - that Beaujolais...

During les trentes glorieuses - the thirty-year heyday of post-war French economic expansion, roughly the late forties through the late...

Complaining is a national pastime throughout France, along with labour strikes, cigarette-smoking, and pétanque. Vignerons, whose livelih...

My time in Beaujolais has left me with a strong distaste for the appellation of Beaujolais-Villages. Not for the wines themselves, of c...

"It's not very charming, as a terroir," says young Fleurie vigneron Justin Dutraive , as we tramp down a muddy path to the ...

Entering southern Beaujolais winemaker Julien Merle 's cellar in Legny, I noted the low wooden ceilings above the cement vats and ask...

Few industries are as plagued with inefficiencies as that of Italian specialty shops in Paris. Prices are often rapacious. And queues are...

A kieselguhr filtration system. I love natural wine. But I understand why the phrase "natural wine" and the sulfur discussion...

Saint-Julien vigneron and négoçiant Xavier Benier has long been an enigma to me. His unsulfured, unfiltered range of wines are well-repr...

If I were ten years younger, I'd probably spend a lot of time on rue Keller. Recent years have seen a cornucopia of earnest young bar...