"Oh là là, look at the Pyrenees!” Ramdane Touhami gasps, with one hand on the wheel of his Range Rover Sport and the other holding on to his fuzzy hot-pink skullcap. The snowcapped mountain range ...

Gascony's 1,200 wineries produce more than 100 million bottles per year. Among them are dry, aromatic whites made from native grapes like petit manseng and ugni blanc.

For centuries, Bordeaux has dominated the wine scene in France, producing expensive and highly coveted vintages. But Bordeaux better watch out. On the scene is a recent challenger: the lesser-known ...

The chef wasn't happy, and he was unhappy in the way only a French chef can be. I didn't blame him. In my clumsy French, I'd asked him if he might bring us a bottle of wine and pointed to where my ...

Reporting from Ste. Colombe-en-Bruilhois, France — “I was looking for a good place to park my boat” is how Kate Hill, an American woman who grew up in Southern California, explains what brought her to ...

Anthony Peregrine was a reporter at the Lancashire Evening Post for a decade, before he moved from north-west England to southern France. For the last 37 years, he has freelanced, specialising first ...

This classic and well-maintained 1822 manor house once stood at the center of a large Gascon agricultural estate with vast wine holdings. A respectful modernization in 1990 preserved many original ...