An artificial lake building up behind the rubble left by a glacier that dramatically plunged down a Swiss mountainside, ...

WE are celebrating the first two weeks of summer by popping the corks on some perfect pinks. The Irish Sun’s Rosé fortnight ...

This dark-skinned red grape most likely originated in France's Rhône Valley, which is still considered its most famous home. Syrah is the sole grape in the reds of the Northern Rhône Valley, but it's ...

His genome diverged from those of other late Neanderthals around 105,000 years ago. That’s a staggering timespan. Thorin’s ...

For decades, residents living near the Arkema and Daikin chemical factories near the southern city of Lyon believed they were safe. But after discovering alarmingly high levels of toxic forever ...

Y'all already know what I'm going to say: it's always rosé season. But at least now it really feels like rosé season. Here ...

For example, in 2015, paleoanthropologist Ludovic Slimak made a remarkable discovery at Grotte Mandrin, a cave in Rhône Valley, France. He and his team had been working the area since 1998 to find ...

China is the largest producer of grapes in the world, supplying a significant share of global production. Explore the top ...

or the Valley of Gastronomy, a food-and-wine trail created in 2022 to promote the storied culinary heritage of three regions of France. The 385-mile trail traces a thousand-year-old trade route ...

As France contends with rising temperatures and increasingly severe heatwaves, some cities are especially prone to the 'heat ...

Unfortunately, Grenache needs quite a time on the vine to develop flavour and sufficiently ripe tannins, which means that low-alcohol Grenache is a rare beast indeed. Only Alkina, Bulman, Kalleske, ...