The word "wines" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to alcoholic drinks made from fermented grapes. For example: "We went to the wine tasting and sampled some of the delicious wines they had on offer."
It's an unlikely setting for a chef who made his name with Le Chateaubriand, a vintage bistro with a bohemian bent in the 11th arrondissement, famed for its take-it-or-leave-it, daily-changing, market-driven set menus and championing edgy natural wines.
1. PRAGUE Snowflakes blowing across the Charles Bridge, music recitals in candelit churches, underground bars, firelit restaurants serving huge plates of comfort food and fine red wines... How could your lover fail to be won over?
But - and this is a lesson in travel as well as terroir - if you go to the region, up in the northeast corner of Hungary, close to Ukraine, you will find these amber-coloured wines dangerously easy to drink.
See vino-uruguay.com Selling sweet, expensive, high-calorie dessert wines might sound like a lost cause - and most Europeans no longer embrace Louis XIV's view that Tokaj is the "wine of kings and king of wines".
Alternatively, you can relax in the backpacker town of El Chaltén, admiring the views, the condors and the craft beers – La Vineria has a great stock of ales and Patagonian wines.
Think fine wines, curries, fresh seafood, homemade pasta.
Good wines, low-key surroundings and impeccable service bring it all together.
The incredible success of the wines has drawn attention to the Douro river valley that snakes from Barca d'Alva on the Spanish border to Oporto.
In any case, most wines are meant to be drunk within five or six years of bottling.
I only know two things about wine: if I like it, it is posh enough; and despite what some experts would have you believe, you can buy reliably good wines more cheaply in mainland Europe than you can in Britain.
There are more complex wines, but I am confident that both the above can hold their own in all but the most elevated company.
