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Champagne Special  No wine name is quite as evocative as champagne. The very word conjures up images of luxury, frivolity and romance. Yet despite this, and despite the fact that it is the most expensive wine that most of us ever buy, very few people fully understand it. Read more..

Valley of the Kings The valley of the Loire, also known as the Valley of the Kings, is named after the longest river in France, which winds its way over 1000km from its source in northern Cévennes, to the Atlantic coast at St Nazaire. Read more..

Burgundy - the heart of France Most Frenchmen - and women - are pretty convinced that their region is by far the best. They are sure that only the area in which they live can produce the most delicious food and wine, have the most beautiful countryside, the best attractions, and the most spectacular history. Read more.. 

Bordeaux: Wine Capital of the World Long before it established a reputation as the largest and oldest fine wine-producing region in the world, Bordeaux was a thriving port. Read more..

Big, Beautiful, Quintessentially French - Le Beaujolais! What image do you conjure up when someone mentions Beaujolais? Some parachutist, emerging dripping wet from the Thames in the early hours of the third Thursday in November with a bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau strapped to his leg? Read more..

Amazing Alsace Alsace, after Paris the second-wealthiest region of France, is an area not much visited by tourists from the UK, being situated in the far northeast with a border on the Rhine and Germany. Read more..