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Vin de Savoie: Savoy: 1973: Vins d'Entraygues et du Fel: South West France: 2011: upgraded to AOC (AOP) from AOVDQS as disappear as label in 2011 Vins d'Estaing: South West France: 2011: upgraded to AOC (AOP) from AOVDQS as disappear as label in 2011 Vins Fins de la Côte de Nuits: Burgundy: 1964: Viré-Clessé: Burgundy: 1999
The Languedoc-Roussillon region shares many terrain and climate characteristics with the neighboring regions of Southern Rhône and Provence.The region stretches 150 miles (240 km) from the Banyuls AOC at the Spanish border and Pyrenees in the west, along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea to the river Rhône and Provence in the east. [2]
Haut-Médoc (French: [o medɔk]) is an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée for wine in the Bordeaux wine region of southwestern France, on the Left Bank of the Gironde estuary. Covering a large part of the viticultural strip of land along the Médoc peninsula, the zone covers approximately 60 kilometres (37 mi) of its length.
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.
The Cité du Vin is a museum located in Bordeaux, France that also hosts exhibitions, shows, movie projections and academic seminars, generally centered around wine-related themes. Following its initial opening in June of 2017, the Cité du Vin reached a milestone of one million visitors in the fall of 2018 [ 1 ] and passed 2 million visitors ...
The tower at Château Latour. Château Latour is a French wine estate, rated as a First Growth under the 1855 Bordeaux Classification.Latour lies at the very southeastern tip of the commune of Pauillac in the Médoc region to the north-west of Bordeaux, at its border with Saint-Julien, and only a few hundred metres from the banks of the Gironde estuary.
The second largest volume of Vin de Pays wines was produced as Vin de Pays de la Loire, a designation that applies to wines from the whole Loire Valley and Chablis. The others were: Vin de Pays du Comté Tolosan (south-west), Vin de Pays de Méditerranée (south-east, Provence and Corsica) and Vin de Pays des Comtés Rhodaniens (Rhone valley ...
Côtes de Toul (French pronunciation: [kot də tul] ⓘ) is an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) for French wine produced in the département of Meurthe-et-Moselle in the Lorraine région. The Côtes de Toul vineyards cover 110 hectares (270 acres) in an area close to Toul , to the west of the city of Nancy .