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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
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Algerian wine and foreign competition made the overproduction crisis worse, since Spain and Italy also had surplus wine to sell. [16] Harvests were poor in 1902 and 1903 due to bad weather, and France produced 3,500 to 4,000 million liters. The prices of wine in these years were 16 francs, then 24 francs per hundred litres. [11]
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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.
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.
The familiar flavors and name recognition of Chardonnay have seen the variety pop up in regions throughout the world. International varieties have been criticized as both a symbol and instigator of the globalization of wine, in which local indigenous grape varieties are grubbed up in favor of the big names demanded by international markets.
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