Every year there is a festival to celebrate the "transhumance" when farmers lead their cattle to the upland pastures in Spring for the Summer, before bringing them down again in…

Saint Jean de Luz Festival (la fête de la Saint Jean) has connections to both water and fire - the two symbols of purification!. At the time of the longest…

Although we tend to class them as "Loire" wines, some of the key wines of the region are classified as "Vins de Centre- Loire" as they come from communes in…

Nuits-Saint-Georges (21 Côte d'Or, BFC) is a famous Burgundy wine village, but its charity Hospices Wine Sale (vente des vins des Hospices de Nuits-Saint-Georges) is rather overshadowed by the annual…

At Châtillon-sur-Seine (21 Côte d'Or BFC) they celebrate the sparkling Crémant de Bourgogne wine with a Festival Fête du Crémant et Tape-Chaudrons -  17 March 2024 (3rd Saturday in March) The…

Every year in March (23 March 2024) the winemakers of appellation of Bourgueil descend on the city of Tours (37 Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire), about 30 miles (50km) to the…

Try the wines of the northern Rhone valley at Tain l'Hermitage in February

Every summer the town and Cathedral of Chartres is illuminated in a spectacular nightly free light show - and at the end of the season there is an extra special Festival of Lights.

Alsace is a very pretty region with picturesque villages and vine-clad hillsides and this has to be one of the best along the Alsace Wine Route (Route des Vins d’Alsace).

Chateauneuf-du-Pape is a big classic wine from the southern Rhône Valley north of Avignon in Provence, and literally translates as the "new Castle of the Pope" and was the summer home of the Pope when based in Avignon (Palais des Papes) in the 14th Century.

Chablis is a charming wine village, full of character and interest in northern Burgundy, home to some of the best Burgundy white wines

Close to the Belgian border on the way to Luxembourg the town of Charleville-Mézières (08 Ardennes, Grand Est) holds a Drum Festival (Tambours de Fête )where the town beats to…

Head to Dunkerque for their wine, beer and food festival weekend