A French wine label can seem, well, foreign. As a whole, they tend to be peppered with traits and terminology that are not ...

Here, the wine is made in the French region of Burgundy (also called Bourgogne) and, within that, Hautes-Côtes de Nuits, which is a village within the larger appellation Côtes de Nuits.

Appellation contrôlée, or sometimes appellation d’origine contrôlée is a term that appears on many bottles of French wine. An appellation can be translated as a name or title, and ...

The French gave us notions that govern the way we think about wine, like terroir, the idea that good wine can express the qualities of its place of origin. They created the modern appellation ...

This year, something is starkly different in one of ... to start the wine production process. The harvest aims to produce the white wine from the famous Pessac-Léognan appellation.

such is the bamboozling number of French wine estates. The absence of grape variety on French AOP (Appellation d'Origine Protegee, or protected designation of origin) wine labels challenges ...