Geography & Climate Champagne is the most northerly wine region in France, about 90miles Northeast of Paris. The climate here is extreme; bone-chilling cold in winter with damaging frost but hot, humid in the summer. Once a seabed...
Unlike wines for Bordeaux, where each district such as St. Julien and Pauillac could have different regulation and exception to their overall Classification. Other than the confusion between village names and the names Grand Cru vineyard, Burgundy wine...
Seems like a foreign land, isolated from the rest of Spain, Galicia tucks away in the Northwest corner of Spain. With over 1000 miles of breath-taking coastline chiseled away in deep low valleys, in which water makes way...
Bordeaux might rule the West of France with its Cabernet and Merlot blends but on the other side of the country, by the border of Italy lies another magnificent wine region, it’s intriguing, elegant, complex and definitely world-class,...
Far to the west edging the Atlantic ocean lies one of the most important wine regions in the world, Bordeaux. The province is named after the port-city Bordeaux, and it is home to over 10.000 wine producers together...
In the last two decades, Napa Valley took the wine world by a storm securing its place among the top wine producing regions, not just in California but in the world. Napa Valley produces less than 5% of...
Geography & Climate Alsace is a thin strip of land running along the Vosges Mountain on the West and the Rhein River to the East. Only after Champagne, it is the second most northerly wine region in France...
Image from www.usanetwork.com/whitecollar White Collar, a very popular TV show on USA network now is in its 5th and final season. The show surrounds a charming ex-conman -Neal Caffrey; in exchange for reduced sentence and freedom, Neal agrees...
Geography & Climate Ribera Del Duero finds itself in the heart of Castilla y Leon commune with a short drive to Rioja from the East and Rueda to the West. Vineyards in this region grow along the...
In Rioja, aging wine traced back to the late 1700s, a practice inspired by Bordeaux region of France. Although at the time larger barrels were used. By the mid 1800s, Rioja wine landscape experienced major growth as result...
Geography & Climate At the very southern tip of Spain, Jerez DOC is world famous for bull-fighting and Sherry (or Xeres in French). Ripeness is never a problem, the region is blessed with abundant sunshine almost year-round but...
Geography & Climate La Mancha is the largest continuous vine-growing region in Spain. A large elevated plateau right in South-Central of Spain. The region endures consistent trend of seasonal climate: very cold winter and dry hot summer. During...
