A 19th-century mine, millions of bottles, and a rescue carried out in stages while the city above it was fought over street by street.

Everyone knows the beer. Belgium also quietly makes genuinely good cool-climate wine, and has done for long enough now to have its own appellations.

Vines clinging to slate cliffs too steep for machinery, a grape that runs from bone-dry to lusciously sweet, and one of Europe's most underrated, most affordable serious wine regions.

Same chalk, same grapes, same method as Champagne — just a few hundred miles north, and only ripening properly since the climate warmed up.

A name on a wine label is a legal claim, not a marketing flourish. Here is what it actually promises, from 1907 French riots to the loophole that created Super Tuscans.