It is a beautiful area of France and the wines have this wonderful, laid-back character that perfectly matches the bucolic settings and the people that live there. We’re back with Part Deux of our interview with John Gilman, author of the newsletter A View from the Cellar ( part one is here ). German Riesling. just don’t get it. MORE >>

Rather it was a 2004 (I think) Recanati Reserve Cabernet Franc. Cab Franc is one of the 5 Bordeaux varietals (grapes which can be used to make French Bordeaux wine - others being Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Malbec & Petit Verdot), and it is usually used as a complementary grape as opposed to a primary grape in Bordeaux. MORE >>

We arrived in France at Charles de Gaulle airport on a red eye flight early on a Saturday morning and immediately headed for the Gare de Lyon to take the high speed train, called the TGV, to Dijon. BrooklynLady is great at researching hotels and restaurants, picking the best places for us to go and the yummiest places to eat. MORE >>

So I just went up and down the rows of cold whites, which were separated generally by country and found myself in the region I have been in for a while now, France. did some research on this wine and what I found was pretty interesting. For all of you out there reading my rants please go and pick this wine up. Maybe more steely? MORE >>

In France Cabernet tends to be a bit more refined with phenolic harmony even in the more rustic examples. If you were on farmland and picked up a handful of soil and shoved you nose right in there that is what you smell first off with this wine. Let's talk South Africa. That sounds simple enough. Done.right. Wrong! Pretty cool. MORE >>