But, true confession: Before a trip there last fall, I honestly couldn’t have pinpointed the region on a map, lying as it does ... baguette and a bottle of red wine sticking out of your basket.

Oh, the exhaustion of running from one wine tasting to the next. "Now that's my kind of marathon," my doctor said. Her enthusiastic diagnosis came on the heels of my request for a medical release ...

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And now, I present the world's longest boozy race: the 26.2 mile Marathon du Médoc, a wine-drinking marathon in France in which participants are supposed to pair running with 23 glasses of ...

ice cream and oysters with white wine (never red with oysters -- we're not animals). Now in its 30th year, the Medoc is only open to 8,500 runners, all of whom must provide proof that they are ...