Château Angélus is not exactly a new wine château. The current owner is the 8 th generation, so the château has been around for some time. But it is a new chateau in the “A” category of the Saint ...

Sometime later this summer, when I have ploughed my way through another 100 pages of paperwork and weaved through a bewildering slalom of French bureaucracy, I will have realised a dream. I am buying ...

You wouldn’t think anyone would be clamoring to spend hours bent over picking grapes. But a lot of people did just that at one of the most prestigious vineyards in France. In fact, at one of France’s ...

Visitors to Bordeaux’s tiny and ancient wine city of Saint Émilion are often mystified: where are the wine bars? Because of a long cultural tradition of pairing wine with food, as well as beguiling, ...

The region has a viticultural heritage going back to Roman times and produces some of the world’s most sought after Bordeaux wine. “Wine is the most civilised thing in the world,” wrote Ernest ...

A wine war has broken out in the ancient French village of St-Emilion between three chateaus and two top owners. Henry Samuel reports. By Henry Samuel 03 May 2013 • 7:00pm Three chateaus took two top ...

The co-owner of one of the world’s most prestigious wine chateaus in Bordeaux has been charged with seeking to unfairly influence the outcome of the coveted Saint-Emilion Grand Cru Classé rankings in ...