For food and wine enthusiasts who want to taste, learn and enjoy the great vineyard and culinary traditions of France.

Chuck Hornsby, owner and director of ‘Vineyards and Kitchens in France’ works in collaboration with his extensive network of associates, colleagues and friends – all food and wine professionals – in France. He is a long time French food and wine writer, educator, and creator of vineyard and culinary programs in France.

Chuck grew up in the Midwest, then traveled to Paris, where he lived, worked, married, and began a lifelong passion for the wine and food of France before returning to the USA and settling in Brattleboro, Vermont. From 1996 to 2001, he traveled the back roads of France, creating, managing and operating food and wine theme programs in all the major wine regions for a travel company. The tours he developed are still enjoyed by more than a thousand travelers every year.

His special skill is locating new sites and forging successful working relationships with professional partners, off the beaten path of food and wine tourism. He led the first programs to the Université du Vin in the southern Rhone vineyards, to the Paul Bocuse Culinary School in Ecully, to the Burgundy Wine School in Macon and to Lydie Marshall’s chateau kitchen in Nyons.

In Vermont he has owned a French bakery, a Gourmet-to-Go restaurant and a specialty wine and cheese shop where he hosted a series of wine education seminars.Chuck arranges every detail of these programs himself. His mission is to help others discover and appreciate the great wine and culinary traditions as they taste, learn and enjoy in the vineyards and kitchens of France.