France produces—and consumes—some of the world’s finest inebriants. To get a taste, start with a champagne apéritif from Reims’s caves (wine cellars;). Try the red wines in Bordeaux and Burgundy and the whites of Alsace’s Route du Vin and the Loire Valley . Top it all off with an after-dinner drink—either cognac, crafted in its namesake town , or calvados, an apple brandy made in Normandy .
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