Every French Wine Explained

Every French Wine Explained 🍷🇫🇷

French wine is really a collection of small worlds, each with its own soil, its own rules, and its own buried secret. This video walks fifteen regions and the secret hiding in each: Bordeaux, whose 1855 ranking was sorted by price and has barely moved since; Burgundy, whose vineyards monks mapped by tasting the soil; Champagne, where the bubbles were once a deadly fault that shattered cellars; the Rhône, birthplace of France’s appellation law; the Loire, where one grape makes everything from bone-dry to sweet to sparkling; Alsace, the only French region that labels by grape; Beaujolais, home to a grape banished from Burgundy in 1395; Provence, the oldest French wine region and the world capital of dry rosé; Languedoc-Roussillon, the giant whose monks sparkled wine before Champagne did; Sauternes, the golden wine born from noble rot; Chablis, grown on a seabed of 150-million-year-old oyster fossils; Cahors, the true home of Malbec; the Jura and its flor-aged vin jaune in a one-of-a-kind bottle; alpine Savoie, drunk almost entirely by locals; and Corsica, whose flagship grape turned out to be Italian. Geography, history, and centuries of law, all in the glass.

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