In a nutshell: Some fine value, under-appreciated by the French. Main grapes: practically anything but especially the international varieties. Vin de Pays means 'country wine' to...

As reported here and here , France's new Vin de Pays de Gaules (for the Beaujolais region), Vin de Pays de l'Atlantique (for Bordeaux) and Vin de Pays Vignobles de France (for all of...

This year’s selection of the top 100 Vins de Pays selected from 1,115 wines entered has been announced by Sopexa in London and these are the trophy winners:   Best White Wine...

The proposed introduction of a new all-embracing, multi-regional, Vin de Pays Vignobles de France as reported here earlier this year, is not going unopposed. (There’s a...

The French Conseil d’État, France’s highest admininstrative court, has annulled the decree which legally established Vignobles de France (literally, 'vineyards of France') as a vin de pays in...

Yesterday I tasted my first example of the new mongrel Vin de Pays, a Vin de Pays des Vignobles de France, a Vin de Pays that can be made up of ingredients grown in any French wine region. Kiwi...

Vin de Pays du Jardin de la France, the evocative official name of Vin de Pays from anywhere within the extensive Loire region, is to be replaced by the more prosaic Vin de Pays du Val de Loire. I...