Wine/20 - Mathieu Doumenge

Curious wine lover and drinker, you will be able to quench your thirst for knowledge! From the vine to the cellar, everything about the birth of wine.

• How does a vineyard function, what are its preferred terroirs? How are the wines made?
• The great vineyards of France, Europe and the world, their history and their present.
• The challenges of climate change.

From the cellar to the table, all the practical questions.

• How to choose and buy your wine, decipher the labels and avoid the traps of marketing?
• The ten commandments of a proper wine cellar, how to build one and what you need to know to open the right bottle at the right time.
• A relaxed approach to tasting and serving wine, and knowing how to pair it with food.

And also something to cultivate your passion for wine and dream a little.

• From amphorae to stainless steel, all the evolutions and revolutions.
• Legendary bottles.
• Wine is omnipresent in our culture: mythology, literature, music, cinema, painting.

Mathieu Doumenge, a senior reporter at Terre de Vins magazine, has specialized in wine, gastronomy and spirits for 15 years.