Wines of Provence

The Wine Year in Provence and the 2024 Harvest

France The wine year in France has been very problematic throughout the 2024 season and with great variation across the country. It started with frost in the spring, then during the important...

Tough Spring in Provence!

The misery continues, in 2021 Provence and the whole of France was hit by extreme frost in the spring followed by two years that were dry and hot in Provence and now...

The Wine Year in Provence and the 2023 Harvest

All of France For all of France, the wine harvest is estimated to end up at 44.5 million hl, which is roughly the average for the last 5 years, but there are...

No Dancing on Roses to be a Wine Journalist and try 192 Rosé Wines!

My wife Maria and I had the chance to try our hand at being wine journalists, when at the end of May we tasted 192 rosé wines from Provence. The world’s leading...

Provence Experiences “2022”

Provence rosé wines from 2021 have unfortunately not impressed me as many wines lacked the typical fruity freshness for me, perhaps due to the Grenache grape taking a beating from the frost...

Provence Vintages

In my Provence wine books there is a chapter with vintage assessments of the wines and the book “The Wines of Provence – Tricolour” reports a preliminary assessment up to vintage 2018...

2021 – A difficult wine year in Provence – 2

According to a brand-new information, the 2021 wine crop in Provence seems to be pretty good, at least in terms of volume! In my last newsletter a month ago, I feared that...

2021 – A Difficult Wine Year in Provence

The weather this year has really disadvantaged the winegrowers in France and so also in Provence. Frost, fire, hail and even turtles that make it worse. How will the wine vintage 2021...

Promising vintage in Provence – The harvest is ongoing – See video!

Promising vintage The grape harvest in Provence 2020 seems to be of a very high quality and this after a troublesome start to the year: The winter was unusually warm and was...

Promising vintage 2019 in Provence!

After 1 – 2 difficult years for the vine growers in Provence, 2019 finally came with better conditions! The two previous vintages have been rated: 2018: The first rating based on wines...

For 25 years, I, Göran Boman, have been a member of “Munskänkarna”, the Swedish wine tasting and wine education association which is the world’s largest non-commercial wine association. During this time I have also during seven years chaired and been responsible for the education of all Munskänkar in my hometown of Västerås.

The origin of my Provence wine books is the essay I wrote when I took the highest course grade for the Munskänkarna, which for wine corresponds to a level higher than the Sommelier grade.