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Burgundy is one of France’s and the world’s premier wine regions. It is the primary home to France’s Chardonnay and Pinot Noir production. It also has one of the world’s most confusing and highly regulated classification systems. It designates everything from the quality grapes grown on tiny plots of land and in distinct microclimates …
Paso Robles is located in California’s Central Coast Wine Region in San Luis Obispo county. It is halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles on Route 101. The area has wineries, breweries, distilleries, and eateries set in its quaint historic town. But we go there mostly to focus on the wine. The AVA is mostly […]
The Beaujolais France wine region is located between the Rhone Valley and Burgundy. The region has multiple Crus or wine-growing areas. Unfortunately, Beaujolais wines have suffered a bad reputation. Why? Many people associate Beaujolais with light, fruity, low-tannin reds made from Gamay Noir grapes. Or from its ultra-young Beaujolais Nouveau which is released within three […]
Hermitage is a French wine appellation on the east bank of France’s northern Rhone wine region (south of Lyon). The region is deservedly noted for its Syrah-based reds (the only red grape permitted in Hermitage wines). Many of these grapes are planted on the minerally rocky granite and clay soils of the impossibly steep, …
Chateauneuf du Pape is one of the most famous wine subregions in the southern part of France’s Rhone Valley. But it wasn’t always that way. In fact, it barely existed until Pope Clement V relocated the papacy to the town of Avignon in 1309. Clement and subsequent Popes were so taken by the region’s wines that […]
The region that is now the country of Georgia claims a number of firsts: It was the first place in Europe to be settled by great apes or hominids (as evidenced by remains dated to 1.8 million years ago); It was one of the first areas to formally adopt Christianity (227 AD); and most importantly […]