France is one of the best wine making countries in the world if not the best. Our French wine guide will reveal the history and legends of French wine, and how to drink the French way β from swirling the glass to how to say cheers! The Romans planted vines too when they arrived in France some years later. They established such excellent vineyards in Bordeaux that they wine was exported to Roman troops stationed in what is now Britain.
Wine though is much older than that, some historians say the earliest wines go back years, where, in what is now Georgia, people buried grapes underground to keep them through winter. And voila wine was born. Or β you can listen to other historians who say wine was made even longer ago than that β based on 10,year-old grape pips found near Lake Geneva. Whoever first invented it, we owe them a debt of gratitude.
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It was on a cold and sleety February day that I went with my dad and my husband by ferry from the south coast of the UK to Calais in France to buy French wine.
And it was when I first saw the old French farmhouse I now call home. You can hear a potted podcast history here. Most, if not all, French people have a very soft spot for the wine grown in France and absolutely consider it to be the best in the world Wine is drunk with respect.
Then is it is swirled in the glass to release the vapour, all the better to sniff it. And French people talk about what it tastes like β a lot. They took it seriously. Wine is in fact a very serious topic for the French! I was shocked to be offered a small amount of wine, watered down, with the Sunday dinner. This would never have happened back at home in London. My parents insisted that there would be no alcohol before the legal age of You might be surprised to learn it was only in that the French Government banned the serving of wine in school canteens!
