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France is one of the largest wine producers in the world, along with Italian, Spanish, and American wine-producing regions. [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. The wines produced range from expensive wines sold internationally to modest ...
The wine regions of Bordeaux in France are a large number of wine growing areas, differing widely in size and sometimes overlapping, which lie within the overarching wine region of Bordeaux, centred on the city of Bordeaux and covering the whole area of the Gironde department of Aquitaine. The Bordeaux region is naturally divided by the Gironde ...
Champagne wine region. Châteauneuf-du-Pape. Cheverny AOC. Clérey-la-Côte. Corsican wine. Côte Chalonnaise. Côte d'Or (escarpment) Côte de Nuits. Côte de Sézanne.
The Rhône wine region in Southern France is situated in the Rhône valley and produces numerous wines under various Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) designations. The region's major appellation in production volume is Côtes du Rhône AOC. The Rhône is generally divided into two sub-regions with distinct vinicultural traditions, the ...
The Provence wine region, located primarily in the Var department, and the appellations of Provence. Provence (Provençal) wine comes from the French wine -producing region of Provence in southeast France. The Romans called the area provincia nostra ("our province"), giving the region its name. Just south of the Alps, it was the first Roman ...
Coordinates: 45°00′N 1°00′W. Map of the Gironde estuary. The Médoc (French pronunciation: [meˈdɔk] ⓘ; Gascon: Medòc [meˈðɔk]) is a region of France, well known as a wine growing region, located in the département of Gironde, on the left bank of the Gironde estuary, northwest of Bordeaux. Its name comes from (Pagus) Medullicus ...
The Languedoc-Roussillon wine region and the location of the region's appellations. Languedoc-Roussillon wine (French pronunciation: [lɑ̃ɡ (ə)dɔk ʁusijɔ̃] ⓘ), including the vin de pays labeled Vin de Pays d'Oc, is produced in southern France. While "Languedoc" can refer to a specific historic region of France and Northern Catalonia ...
Detailed map of the Rhône wine region, with separate maps of Southern Rhône ("Zoom A") and Northern Rhône ("Zoom B"). Côtes du Rhône is a wine-growing Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) for the Rhône wine region of France, which may be used throughout the region, also in those areas which are covered by other AOCs.