#bordeaux

#bordeaux

Only wines from a handful of producers achieve blue-chip status in the wine collecting world.

Bordeaux and Burgundy wines are traditionally the focus of wine collecting, perpetuating a lack of curiosity.

There are many other regions in the world making superb wines that are often overlooked by collectors. [ more ]

The Barton family, descendants of Irish migrants to France, have returned to Ireland to share their wines that have been made in Bordeaux's Médoc region for nine generations.

Migrations from Ireland to France did not lead to France becoming known for whiskey distillation; the Irish descendants took their whiskey-making skills to Tennessee and Kentucky. [ more ]