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Outsiders are challenging the power structure that has defined Bordeaux’s Left Bank for more than a century. But is it enough?

Places

After decades of calculated success, Sancerre remains a “basic” pleasure for many drinkers. Can it be more?

Wine

The essential producers, wines and methods behind the world's most notable pétillant naturel.

Beer

“I was primed to fetishize it, a ‘beer for natural wine geeks’—and fetishize it I did.”

Wine

Jon Bonné kicks off our series of essential guides to the world’s most important wines with France’s great underrated white.

Wine

Roussillon’s natural winemakers are giving rancio sec, the region’s ancestral oxidative wine, new life.

Spirits

Often bolder in profile, Armagnac has benefitted, in many ways, from being the in the shadow of the France’s far more tony grape brandy, Cognac.

Wine

Proof it’s possible to find charming expressions of the region’s native grapes, without undue manipulation and around $30.

Places

As bartenders declare a golden age of vermouth, producers Cocchi, Dolin and Miró consider its impact.

Places

Famed San Francisco bartender Thad Vogler visits the Camut brothers, arguably Normandy’s finest producers of calvados.

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