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It's that time of year again. The Loire salons are approaching, and with them, the annual tempest of facile social media emissions r...

Almost everyone in Beaujolais has at least one nickname. To an outsider, it makes it difficult to follow conversations, because one has t...

When Voltaire-area greengrocer  Le Zingam first opened in April 2014, I gave it a wide berth, because it seemed like yet another overpri...

Claude Zordan and Romain Zordan Such are the nuances at play within natural winemaking in Beaujolais that the two young winemakers o...

It took me over a year to get around to visiting restaurateur Naoufel Zaïm's miniscule gourmet shop in the high nothingsphere of Jour...

During pressing with Yvon and Jules Métras this September we were often joined around apéro hour by Jules' good friend Yann Bert...

Gentrification in Paris seems to happen with the handbrake on. There ought to be a different word for it, one with less negative connotat...

Paul-Henri Thillardon in the vines he rents from Château Les Boccards. Contemporary Beaujolais is rife with opportunity - overlooked...

The most famous man in Beaujolais is not who you might think . His wines remain under-acknowledged on the market, but in terms of sheer p...

As we toured Brouilly vigneron Patrick Cotton 's gently tumescent, unsloped vineyards in Saint-Lager, I remarked that one parcel se...

I can think of few better indicators of the stratospheric potential of cru Beaujolais terroir than the nascent career of young Odenas win...

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...