One region that should be on your bucket list is France’s Loire Valley. It is here in verdant central France where history and wine intersect as well as anywhere in Europe. The 300-plus castles ...

By TOM MARQUARDT and PATRICK DARR Sauvignon blanc has always played a distant third in sales to chardonnay and pinot grigio.

Whether it’s because of the wine ... Loire Valley, the sancerres made from sauvignon blanc are identified by their appellations. Even South African and Australia’s Margaret River region ...

Au Bon Climat put Santa Barbara County on the global wine map, thanks to founder Jim Clendenen’s pursuit ... food-friendly grape varieties originally from France’s Loire Valley: cabernet franc, chenin ...

Juicy is such an irresistible word, whether applied to a bit of gossip or a delicious red wine. Juicy reds are so luscious ... a small and relatively obscure region in the Loire Valley, but Cabernet ...

Yes, and we’re already seeing this on many points of the wine map ... in the Coal River Valley near Hobart. This is revolutionary. Sydney’s nearby Hunter Valley wine region has, for some ...

Turns out you don’t need a passport to sleep like royalty – just a GPS pointed toward La Crosse, Wisconsin. This is where ...

The most lively ski area is “Les Trois Vallées,” the biggest ski region in the world ... It puts on occasional evening performances. Wine lovers shouldn’t leave France without visiting the Loire ...

This is a landscape which has been preserved through legislation, with the "special character" of the Barossa region ... wine around the world, and enshrining the heritage and beauty of the Valley ...

From the Temecula Valley to the Santa Cruz ... Diego for 3 types of travelers.) The Lodi region produces approximately 20 percent of California’s wine grapes—more than Napa and Sonoma combined.