From your morning coffee to your night-time digestif, we cover the best names in wines, apéritifs, liquors, and non-alcoholic drinks in France.
Whether it's a celebration or just a casual meal, good cheese and wine go together like young lovers walking along the Seine, hand in hand. Which is to say they go well together. France is renowned for its food and…
Walk into any restaurant or brasserie in France and you will see it on the menu: Kir. It is usually under apéritifs, and is a recipe mix of crème de cassis (blackcurrant liqueur) topped up with a white wine from Burgundy, such as…
When the cold weather hits, everybody loves a warm and toasty cup of mulled wine. The problem with mulled wine though, sometimes is the wine. If you don't drink alcohol or know someone who doesn't, never fear, you can still…
If you have ever been to France in the winter, you may have noticed that tantalizing phrase on French brasserie menus: Vin chaud. Hot wine? Rather, vin chaud translates to mulled wine and harkens back to the olden days, when…
France is a world-leader when it comes to producing wine, so it is no surprise that we also quite enjoy drinking it! Who doesn't enjoy a heavenly glass of wine at the end of a long day? A time to…
Côtes du Rhône wines are not the fanciest French wine on the block, but they do get around. A lovely glass of wine, while lounging around in the sunny south of France, what could be better!? On either side of…
The red and white wines of the Loire Valley may not be as famous as some of the other wine regions of France but that is not to say there is not some great wine in the region. The region…
As the famous saying goes, not all wines are created equal. When it comes to wine, France is a powerhouse. The French are amongst the most knowledgeable wine growerss in the world and they’ve been producing some of the world’s…
Along with Bordeaux, the big heavy hitter amongst famous French wines is the Bourgogne (Burgundy) region. If you are looking for fancy (and who isn't?), Burgundy wines can go toe-to-toe with the best wines in the world. Red wines from…
With some of the most popular and famous wines in the world, French wines today are the world standard. And within that high standard, France's Bordeaux is a wine region to be reckoned with. And why are Bordeaux wines so…
Beaujolais wines, and in particular the Beaujolais Nouveau, are some of the most exported French wines in the world. Every November, you will see the signs from Paris to French bars in New York: the "Beaujolais Nouveau est arrivé!" (meaning…
Over the centuries, it has been it has not been easy to be a winegrower in the Alsace region. Amongst the famous and most prestigious wines of France, there are not many that are from Alsace. This is not to…
When you think of luxury and prestige, it is usually accompanied by a glass of Champagne. The most famous of French wines (yes, it counts as a wine, of the sparkling variety), has many pretenders who try to emulate its…
If you have ever walked into a wine shop and been completely perplexed as to what to get, you are not alone. With hundreds of Bordeaux, Burgundies, and even many different types of champagne, picking a good wine bottle is…
French waiters have a reputation for being rude, and one of those rites of passage of any visitor is ordering a cup of coffee in French, in Paris. Unless it is a venti at Starbucks, you are bound to be…
France is the land of the apéro. Lazy long evenings spent with family and friends, eating, drinking, and making merry. So it stands to reason that there are many French apéritifs here to indulge in. Apéritif - an alcoholic drink…
You might have guessed from the french word: digestif, meaning "to digest". The typical dinner in France tends to be very long. With several entrées, mains, bread, fruits, and cheeses, the French have realized over the years that you need…
It is as French as the croissant. And yet most people outside of France have never heard of Pastis. It was not de riguer when Napoleon was around, but if it were, I'm sure he would have drunk gallons of…