A bottle of French wine dating back to 1774 fetched 46,000 Swiss francs (about $49,200) at auction in Geneva on Tuesday.

The broadest French wine laws apply to bottles labeled Vin de France (VDF) ... " The vintage refers to the year the grapes were harvested, not the year the wine was bottled." 6.

'Exceptional vintage': French hot spell to cut wine output but boost quality. By Reuters. August 24, 2023 7:01 PM UTC Updated August 24, 2023 VALVIGNERES, France, Aug 22 (Reuters ...

Once wine growers find a variety that works, the study reinforces, they’ll stick with it for centuries, or even millenniums. ... A French Wine With a 900-Year-Old Vintage.

A week ago, Gery Wilson had a task: How to mount a canvas-backed lithograph, roughly 10 feet by 12 feet, onto a wall at the Napa Valley Museum in Yountville.

One friend brought two old bottles of French wine found in a relative’s Oregon garage. The Mouton Cadet didn’t have a vintage on the label but with $4.95 price tag, one can imagine how old you ...

Nathan Derri is the sommelier at the newly opened 1855 Bar à Vins in the Back Bay, so he has a very strong handle on French wines. If you don’t, don’t sweat it, he said. “I can see how ...

Struggling French winemakers may have to destroy their vintage cellars to survive. Several major wine-producing regions in France – particularly the vinyards of Bordeaux – are grappling with ...

“Back to Burgundy” is hardly the first French film to use the making of wine as a backdrop, but it might be the most site specific. It’s not that other vineyard films like Éric Rohmer’s ...

The types of wine that we buy, we do buy Italian and French wines, but it's a small part of our business." Vintage Reserve Wine is open Tuesdays through Saturdays.