A bottle-by-bottle crash course in everything you’ll ever need to know about French wine. 🍷
The world of French wine is dauntingly vast. To learn every aspect of it, you’d need an entire wine shop, and a lifetime as well. Yet drinking wine, from anywhere, without knowing something about the wines of France is like going to the movies with a blindfold on; you’re missing a lot. Even your favorite California Cabernets and Argentine Malbecs, after all, are made with grapes that originated in France.
Alsace, along France’s border with Germany, specializes in white wines, particularly Riesling and Gewürztraminer. Here, the Adam’s smoky stoniness and austerity contrasts dramatically with the Weinbach’s exotic aromas of lychee and rosewater, its moderate sweetness, and its ripe nectarine fruit.Two very different regions, two very different wines. Vouvray, in the Loire Valley, is Chenin Blanc. Whites from the Rhône Valley can use a range of varieties, depending on the appellation .
First thing: Smell these wines. The vanilla spice in the Chassagne comes from new oak barrels; most Chablis, like the Moreau, won’t have that note. Instead, the Moreau recalls the way dry earth smells just after rain, a telltale Chablis scent. The Chablis is light and fine; the Chassagne richer and more tongue-coating.2015 Château Bourgneuf Pomerol
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