Free onsite parking. Gourmet restaurant, pool, wine tasting. Gourmet restaurant, pool. Small historic winery with conservatory of old vine varieties. Wine tasting. Spring-water natural pool. Meals by arrangement. To contact About-France. There are ten major wine growing regions in France, plus a number of smaller areas. Indeed there is commercial wine production in every region of France, except for the regions bordering on France's north coast. French wine in a world market For hundreds of years, France basked in the reputation of being the world's greatest producer of wines.
Today, that reputation is being rivalled by other wine-growing nations on four continents, and the French wine industry is facing new challenges. There are about 27, wineries in France.
About , vinegrowers own at least one vineyard. But many of them bring their grapes to their local co-op. Only one vinegrower out of five produces his own wine. The average size is about 8 hectares. The total size of the french vineyards is about hectares.
Recommend this page to yourself or to a friend! French Wine Guide english. Guide des vins de France french. From the 5th century onward religious communities deforested the south facing slopes bordering the rivers and developed the French vineyards. The monks produced wine throughout the Middle Ages for their personal use sacramental wine , but also for trade. In the 17th century the nobility realized the commercial potential of wine-making and contributed widely to the further development of the French vineyards.
Indeed, all religious establishments and their vineyards were confiscated and declared national property. Nobody though knew how to tend the vines and many vineyards turned into wasteland or were developed. The remaining French vineyards were entirely wiped out by phylloxera between s and s. They were replanted with French grape varieties grafted onto American root-stocks resistant to the parasite.
Then came WWI and its horrendous devastation and loss of human lives, then the great crash of
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