Wine with Leslie: The best bottles to pick up in the French wine sales

September is Foire aux Vins month in France and it's wine sale month here too.

Generic photo of a person buying a bottle of wine in a shop. Picture: Pexels

I find reassurance in the rhythm of the seasons and the prospects for the wine harvest, the all-important vendanges.

This year is early, Bordeaux began picking their white grapes in Pessac-Léognan on August 19 (a day later than in the heatwave of 2003), and much of Burgundy began picking a day or two later.