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Living in Beaujolais for the past few months has revealed myriad semi-unknown regional charms. What it has not revealed are many good res...

Before I met Julie Balagny in early August, I had presumed she was the reclusive type. I don't know where I got this idea. It may ...

Most wine regions have a colourful word for the traditional end-of-harvest party. In Burgundy it's la paulée . In the Aube it's l...

There was a man hanging around in the driveway when my friends and I showed up on bicycles for a rendezvous with Morgon-based winemaker  ...

I moved to Beaujolais in mid-August to research a book I hope to write on the region's wines. I bought a 50cc scooter to get ar...

Upon arriving in Paris, one can take pleasure in almost any characterful feature of the city, regardless of fame or exclusivity. For six ...

To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the ...

The other evening I had the occasion to follow up on a surprising recommendation I'd received in March from Guardian wine columnist...

On a rainy morning in April, over some barrel samples of his and his son's old vine Morgon and Régnié (respectively), I mentioned to ...

Young Fleurie-based winemaker Jules Métras released his first wine under his own name this year, a Beaujolais-Villages sourced from tw...

Jordan Mackay. Someone get this man a glass of Métras. I write now and then for an NYC-based website called PUNCH , whose stated purpos...

A common wine writing trope is to conclude that a wine resembles its maker in some way or another. Nowhere is this less  applicable than ...

Jean-Claude Lapalu occupies an interesting position in the pantheon of contemporary Beaujolais. The son and grandson of winegrowers, he ...

As diners and critics, we're willing to discern greater depths in a chef's plates if he or she has led a swashbuckling lifestyle,...

Some tasting appointments in Beaujolais are difficult to obtain because a given winemaker's work is so sought-after that he or she ...

When I first wrote about Jane Drotter's splendid contemporary bistrot YARD in April 2014 , I couldn't help expressing astonishm...