The New French Wine

In The New French Wine (Ten Speed Press, 2023), Jon Bonné tells the groundbreaking tale of the world’s greatest wine culture at a moment of profound change. 

France is the soul of the global wine industry. And over the past 20 years, French wine has been simultaneously destroying and recreating itself, driven by a talented generation of pioneering winemakers.

This one-of-a-kind book required more than eight years of research and reporting. Bonné takes readers on a tour through every wine region of France, and features some 800 producers and more than 7,000 wines, plus evocative maps and photography by award-winning photojournalist Susannah Ireland.

Packaged in a deluxe slip case and encompassing two volumes and nearly 900 pages, The New French Wine won the André Simon Award, is shortlisted for a 2024 James Beard Award, and has enjoyed widespread critical praise. It was named a Wine Book of the Year by The Washington Post and The Boston Globe, and praised by The New York Times as “an opinionated, thought-provoking work that uses wine as a vehicle for cultural history.”