The #Winophiles group of bloggers, writers, and journalists talk about the forgotten grapes of France in February 2025.
What is this all about?!?
You are most likely familiar with grapes like Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Sauvignon Blanc. But have you heard of Sacy, Négrette or Poulsard? Or Tibouren, Pineau d’Aunis and Auxerrois? These grapes, each grown in small amounts, make lovely monovarietal wines, meaning wine from the same grape variety.
While some of the less-known wine grapes grown in France are harder to find outside the country, they are well worth a search and certainly good dînatoire or get together conversation pieces!
Each of us – the #Winophiles – found wines made from less common grapes and will feature it on our blog and/or other social channels Saturday, February 8th. I hope I piqued your interest to learn more about these grapes!
Details for How to Participate
You are welcome to jump in and participate in the February French #Winophiles event with us. Or, if you prefer, stay tuned to hear about the wines we discuss made with forgotten French grapes. By this, I mean grapes indigenous to France, yet used much less for one reason or another, or even tossed to the side in favor of international grape varieties like Cabernet Sauvignon and Sauvignon Blanc. Here are the details…
Send an email to let me know you are in, or post in the Facebook #Winophiles event group. Include your blog url. I’d like to get a sense of who’s participating and give shoutouts and links as we go. The email is lwg.mine[at]gmail[dot]com.
Send your post title to me by Sunday, February 2nd at 12:00 noon, EST (18:00 CET) to be included in the preview post. My preview will go live here on Savor the Harvest shortly after getting the titles, linking to your blogs. When your post goes live, the published title should include “#Winophiles”.
Publish your post article anytime during the week, but please no later than 11 am EST (17:00 CET) on Saturday, February 8th. You can always schedule your post in advance if your schedule is busy.
Include in your post article:
- a description of what the event is about
- a link to the other #Winophiles participants in your post. I will provide the html code you can easily put in your initial post – which will link to people’s general blog url – then updated code for the permanent links to everyone’s #Winophiles posts.
Get social! After the posts go live, please visit your fellow bloggers posts’ to comment and share.
Sponsored posts OK if clearly disclosed. Please be sure to disclose if your post is sponsored or if you are describing wine or other products for which you have received a free sample.
That’s it! Can’t wait to see what less-known wine grape(s) you find! As we say here in France, bonne chance and santé !
Thank you for hosting!
My pleasure. Thank you for participating!