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Terroir-France:AOC list, sorted by region; Arrêté du 19 juillet 2004 relatif à la composition des comités régionaux vins et eaux-de-vie de l'Institut national des appellations d'origine (in French) Europa.eu: Wine sector: List of quality wines produced in specified regions
French wine is produced throughout all of France in quantities between 50 and 60 million hectolitres per year, or 7–8 billion bottles. France is one of the largest wine producers in the world. [1] [2] French wine traces its history to the 6th century BCE, with many of France's regions dating their wine-making history to Roman times.
Châteauneuf-du-Pape red wines are often described as earthy with gamey flavors that have hints of tar and leather. [4] The wines are considered tough and tannic in their youth but maintain their rich spiciness as they age. [1] The wines often exhibit aromas of dried herbs common in Provence under the name of garrigue. Châteauneuf-du-Pape ...
The most widely exported nouveau wine is Beaujolais nouveau, which is released on the third Thursday of November, often only a few weeks after the grapes were harvested. As of 2005, there were 55 AOCs in France permitted to make nouveau wines. Less than half of these AOCs are required to have the words primeur or nouveau printed on the label.
Wines from the region have been produced for over two millennia and were consumed by the Greeks in pre-Roman times, making it one of the oldest vineyards in Europe.The area was settled by veterans of Julius Caesar's campaigns in Egypt, and bottles of Costières de Nîmes bear the symbol of the Roman settlement at Nîmes, a crocodile chained to a palm tree.
Wine grapes of France (1 P) Wine regions of France (6 C, 38 P) ... Pages in category "French wine" The following 69 pages are in this category, out of 69 total.
Vin de France is a designation for table wine from France that has been in use since 2010, when it started to replace the former vin de table category. [1] Vin de France wines may indicate grape variety (for example Chardonnay or Merlot) and vintage on the label, [2] but are not labelled by region or appellation; they are labelled only as coming from France.
Château Pétrus from the Pomerol wine region The Pomerol AOC (#14) within the "Right Bank" wine region of Bordeaux. It is located just north of the city of Liborne south of Lalande-de-Pomerol (#15), northwest of Saint-Émilion (#21) and east of Fronsac (#12).