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Italy (意大利) The Northwest . Click to View: Map of Italy & North West Italy If you look at the map of Italy on the cover, you can see the regions that make up the Northwest: Aosta Valley, Piedmont, Liguria, Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna. Though Emilia-Romagna runs all the way to the east coast of Italy, it is probably included in [...]
Italy (意大利) Click to view: Map of Italy. Italy is the world’s largest wine producer, with production just under 25 percent of the world’s total. It’s also the greatest wine consumer with most wines consumed locally; although second to France in per capita consumption Italy’s a land of vast geographic diversity ranging from its northern cool-temperature vineyards [...]
Southern Rhone Côtes du Rhone (芳莎丽庄园) Click to view: Map of Cotes du Rhone. Classified in 1937, the Cotes du Rhone is an enormous appellation encompassing red, white and rosé wines covering an area of 40,300 ha and producing a crop that is 3 times larger than Beaujolais and almost as much as Bordeaux. Although this wine [...]
Southern Rhone Gigondas (吉恭达斯) Click here: Map of Gigondas. . Gigondas has been renowned for the quality of its wines since Roman times although it was not really until Gigondas was classified as a Côtes du Rhône Villages in 1966 that it really began to realise its potential. It achieved AC status in 1971 and today produces [...]
Southern Rhone Châteauneuf-du-Pape Click to view: Map of Chateaunuf du Pape. This is probably one of the most famous Rhone wine regions to the hearts of Asian wine lovers. In terms of size, Châteauneuf-du-Pape is the largest and most important appellation in the southern Rhone. There are over 300 hectares of vineyards and over 80 growers [...]
Northern Rhone Hermitage (吉佳乐) Click to View: Map of Hermitage Hermitage is perhaps easiest to remember, pronounce and deemed as the most famous of all the northern Rhone appellations. The hill of Hermitage is situated above the town of Tain and overlooking the town of Tournon which is just across the river. Hermitage has 120 hectares and [...]
Northern Rhone Saint-Joseph (圣约瑟) Click to View: Map of Cote Rotie This area comprises of 950 hectares of cultivated vines and is located south of Chateau Grillet (which won’t be listed in our write-up due to scarcity) in the northern portion of France’s Rhone Valley since 1956. It encompasses six villages clustered around the village of Mauves. [...]