not drinking poison in paris

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...

When the partners involved in Voltaire gastronome-magnet Restaurant Bones decided to go their separate ways last summer, remaining co-ow...

Odenas-born natural vigneron Raphael Champier decamped to a fixer-upper house and cellar on the outskirts of Villié-Morgon late last yea...

Back in early November I asked Beaujolais vigneron Karim Vionnet where he'd be spending the soirée of Beaujolais Nouveau in Paris. H...

The most recent book published in English about Beaujolais, as far as I can tell, is British journalist Rudolph Chelminski's wishfu...

About half an hour into our visit last October, larger-than-life Pierre Dorées vigneron Jean-Gilles Chasselay was serving us barrel tast...

The other day my kind friends drove us fifty minutes north of Beaujolais to taste just four wines. The wines, while well-made, were not l...