FRENCH WINE

French Wines

• Alsace produces excellent dry and sweet white wines. They are so typical that the grape varieties used only grow in Alsace and nowhere else
• The Bordeaux region is the most important wine producing region in France and in the world. Bordeaux has about 7,000 chateaux !
• A few of the most exciting wines in the world come from Burgundy. The region produces two of the most popular wines in France: Beaujolais and Chablis.
• Corsica offers subtle rosé and dry white wines.
• Côtes du Rhône is probably the most diverse wine region in France (Châteauneuf du Pape, Condrieu and Château Grillet and the fruity red wines of Crozes Hermitage ...)
• Languedoc-Roussillon region produces mainly red wines, a good share is "Vin de Table" but most of it is "Vin de Pays".
• The Loire Valley is one of the most beautiful French wine regions
• Provence is very well known for its rosé wine.
• Wines from the South-West of France have often been confused with Bordeaux wines.

French Terroirs

A " terroir " is a group of vineyards (or even vines) from the same region, belonging to a specific appellation, and sharing the same type of soil, weather conditions, grapes and wine making savoir-faire, which contribute to give its specific personality to the wine.

In France the average yearly production is 70 million hectolitres (about 9 billion bottles!). Wines are classified in four categories, governed by very specific laws :

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