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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 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]
Rivesaltes (/ ˈ r iː v ˈ s ɔː l t /; French pronunciation: ⓘ) is an appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) for naturally sweet, fortified wines (vin doux naturel or VDN). The name refers to both a production region within Languedoc-Roussillon in southern France, and the style of sweet wines produced there.
Refuge du Roc de la Pêche is a refuge in the Alps 45°19′40″N 6°41′29″E / 45.32778°N 6.69139°E / 45.32778; 6 This article about a French building or structure is a stub .
The Musée du Vin (French pronunciation: [myze dy vɛ̃], lit. ' Museum of the Wine ') is a cultural venue in the 16th arrondissement located at 5, square Charles Dickens, Paris, France next to the Trocadéro and the Eiffel Tower. [1] The nearest métro station is Passy. The museum opened in 1984.
Le Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux, or CIVB, the Bordeaux wine Bureau, created in 1948, is a French interest group that represents nearly 10,000 Bordeaux wine producers and growers, and 400 négociants. [1] It is by some estimated to be the most important wine industry body in France. [2]
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 ...
Pech Merle is a French hillside cave at Cabrerets, in the Lot département of the Occitania region, about 32 kilometres (19.88 miles) east of Cahors, by road.It is one of the few prehistoric cave painting sites in France that remains open to the general public, albeit with an entry fee.