French wine is produced all throughout France, in quantities between 50 and 60 million hectolitres per year, or 7–8 billion bottles. France is one of...
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Board Claude Dubois-Millot (French) (Substitute to Christian Millau) Michel Dovaz (French) of the Wine Institute of France Patricia Gallagher (American)...
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Pemberton's French Wine Coca was a coca wine created by the druggist John Pemberton, the inventor of Coca-Cola. It was an alcoholic beverage, mixed with...
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heat in the process. Wine is most often made from grapes, and the unqualified term "wine" generally refers to grape wine. Even so, wine can be made from a...
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Great French Wine Blight was a severe blight of the mid-19th century that destroyed many of the vineyards in France and laid waste to the wine industry...
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The history of French wine, spans a period of at least 2600 years dating to the founding of Massalia in the 6th century BC by Phocaeans with the possibility...
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Bordeaux wine (Occitan: vin de Bordèu, French: vin de Bordeaux) is produced in the Bordeaux region of southwest France, around the city of Bordeaux, on...
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l'Institut national des appellations d'origine (in French) Europa.eu: Wine sector: List of quality wines produced in specified regions Portals: Wine France...
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Sancerre is a French wine Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) for wine produced in the area of Sancerre in the eastern part of the Loire valley, southeast...
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Sauternes (French pronunciation: [sotɛʁn]) is a French sweet wine from the region of the same name in the Graves section in Bordeaux. Sauternes wine is made...
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Burgundy wine (French: Bourgogne or vin de Bourgogne) is made in the Burgundy region of eastern France, in the valleys and slopes west of the Saône, a...
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Rosé (redirect from Blush wine)
A rosé (French: [ʁoze]) is a type of wine that incorporates some of the color from the grape skins, but not enough to qualify it as a red wine. It may...
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fortified wine, including port, sherry, madeira, Marsala, Commandaria wine, and the aromatised wine vermouth. One reason for fortifying wine was to preserve...
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amounts of wine are made in some rather unexpected places. In 2021, the five largest producers of wine in the world were, in order, Italy, France, Spain,...
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Jura wine is French wine produced in the Jura département. Located between Burgundy and Switzerland, this cool climate wine region produces wines with...
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Cru is a wine term used to indicate a high-quality vineyard or group of vineyards. It is a French word which was originally used to refer to both a region...
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(referred to in French as Rhône septentrional) and the Southern Rhône (in French Rhône méridional). The northern sub-region produces red wines from the Syrah...
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Provence (Provençal) wine comes from the French wine-producing region of Provence in southeast France. The Romans called the area provincia nostra ("our...
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Appellation d'origine contrôlée of the Burgundy region in France. Its cool climate produces wines with more acidity and less fruitiness than Chardonnay vines...
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South West France, or in French Sud-Ouest, is a wine region in France covering several wine-producing areas situated respectively inland from, and south...
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Vouvray (French pronunciation: [vuvʁɛ] ) is a French wine region in the Loire Valley located in the Touraine district just east of the city of Tours in...
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Champagne (redirect from Champagne wine)
Champagne (/ʃæmˈpeɪn/, French: [ʃɑ̃paɲ] ) is a sparkling wine originated and produced in the Champagne wine region of France under the rules of the appellation...
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Port wine (Portuguese: vinho do Porto, Portuguese: [ˈviɲu ðu ˈpoɾtu]; lit. 'wine of Porto'), or simply port, is a Portuguese fortified wine produced in...
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of wine. It can be introduced in the form of a barrel during the fermentation or aging periods, or as free-floating chips or staves added to wine fermented...
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(in French) The mutage of wines of residual sugar, Collective work, Les cahiers itinéraires d'ITV France, November 2005, 20 pages (in French) Ice Wine: vinification...
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Table wine (rarely abbreviated TW) is a wine term with two different meanings: a style of wine and a quality level within wine classification. In the United...
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Châteauneuf-du-Pape AOC (redirect from Châteauneuf du Pape (wine))
Châteauneuf-du-Pape (French pronunciation: [ʃɑtonœf dy pap] ) is a French wine, an Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) located around the village of...
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wines. In European Union countries, the word "champagne" is reserved by law only for sparkling wine from the Champagne region of France. The French terms...
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Lillet (redirect from Lillet wine)
Lillet (French pronunciation: [li.lɛ]) is a French wine–based aperitif from Podensac. Classed as an aromatised wine within EU law, it is a blend of 85%...
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Coca wine is an alcoholic beverage combining wine with cocaine. One popular brand was Vin Mariani, developed in 1863 by French-Corsican chemist and entrepreneur...
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