The Wine Travelers visit the oldest wine making site in southern France at the Chateau St. Cosme in the village of Gigondas, on the northern edge of Provence. Here we meet the lively winemaker Louis Barroul and learn what makes the southern Rhone so different than the north.

We speak about the mistral and view the [...]

Priorat wines have achieved a cult following recently with the more adventurous of wine enthusiasts. This tiny region, located in the Catalan region of eastern Spain, is an ancient and once thriving wine center, but it has suffered greatly in the last century under phylloxera and war. By the mid 1900’s, commercial production was all [...]