201 – One Grape, Many Faces – How France Uses the Same Grape Differently
One of the defining ideas of French wine is that grape variety alone never tells the full story. In France, the same grape can produce dramatically different wines depending on where it’s grown, how it’s farmed, and how tradition shapes its expression.
We’ll focus on some of France’s most important grapes and examine how place, climate, and philosophy reshape them — sometimes so completely that they hardly seem like the same wine at all.