Have a look, here below, to the main wine regions of France through our wine maps: Alsace, Beaujolais, Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, Corsica, Jura, Languedoc, Loire, Provence, Rhône, Savoy and the South West of France. We caught up with the group the last day at Linden Vineyards where proprietor Jim Law lead a vineyard tour and discussed their signature Hardscrabble and Avenius wines. Like Spain and Italy, France is rich of a large heritage still omnipresent from its history to its countryside, from its cultural citizenship to its power of influence on the global trends and markets. From May 4th-6th, about 40 wine bloggers and writers visited several wineries in Virginia as part of TasteCamp 2012. The culture and the blood of its vineyards feed a magic each year reborn. Today, it offers a great variety of terroirs and climates and as many wines for the modern winelovers.įrance is the reference, the keeper of the old world.
Originally constructed in 1799 as a classic colonial-style home for Thomas Jefferson’s daughter and husband, Martha and Thomas Mann Randolph. Among the historic inns in Virginia, The Clifton is truly unique. Its new strengths like tradewinds blow along its shores and seas. Other Luxury Lodging in Virginia Wine Country: The Clifton photo courtesy of Clifton Inn. Its spirit would be Burgundy and its eternal terroirs drawn by the monks of another age witnesses, protectors and fathers of what was going to be. France, from the prestigious wines of Bordeaux to the sparkling wines of Champagne through the oceans of vines found in Aquitaine and Languedoc to the string of appellations of the Rhônes Valley rolling down to Provence, is a fruit of both tradition and entrepeneurship.