Unusually wet conditions across France have wreaked havoc on many wine-growing regions this year after years of challenges to vineyards and wine quality caused by drought and heat.

But wine lovers around the world may struggle to get their hands on the 2024 “millesime” — wine that comes from a single year's harvest. It will be available in smaller quantities than usual.

A step above regional wines are village, or communal wines that carry the name of specific villages, like Chablis, Beaune or Pouilly-Fuissé.

Producers are struggling to stave off environmental threats to Chablis’s distinctive character. By Eric Asimov Reporting from Chablis, France Good Chablis is the most distinctive chardonnay wine ...

Winegrower Vincent Dampt serves a glass of Chablis wine in his office, in Chablis, Burgundy region, eastern France, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus) CHABLIS, France (AP) — France’s ...

LIGNORELLES, France (AP) — On a brisk late September morning in the heart of Chablis wine country, grape pickers haul large and heavy buckets over their shoulders, drenched in sweat as they ...

CHABLIS – France’s wine producers are deeply concerned that the 20% tariff slapped by President Donald Trump will deal a severe blow to the sector that relies on the U.S. as its top market ...

LIGNORELLES, France — On a brisk late September morning in the heart of Chablis wine country, grape pickers haul large and heavy buckets over their shoulders, drenched in sweat as they climb the ...

LIGNORELLES, France — On a brisk late September morning in the heart of Chablis wine country, grape pickers haul large and heavy buckets over their shoulders, drenched in sweat as they climb the ...