Rhone Valley wine history

Rhone Valley, producing a long history, is the oldest wine region in France. Archaeology shows that as early as the first century AD, with the Roman conquest of Gaul, the Romans discovered the Rhone Valley grape growing is the treasure the two sides, it became the birthplace of French wine. 100 years later, it reached the Bordeaux wine growing areas. Fourteenth century AD, the Holy See disputes, the Pope moved to the Rhone Valley region, residence in the capital of Avignon, a total of seven hundred years after the Pope in this, and has built a "teaching Palace" and the Summer Palace, "the Pope Newcastle." Required to meet the Holy See, close to vineyards and wine grape varieties continue to improve technology, quality of Rhone Valley wine producing areas by leaps and bounds, resulting in such as "Pope Newcastle" Chateauneuf-du-Pape wines so.

Rhone Valley wine producing variety, its full-bodied red wine to taste, slightly spicy as the main feature. Some people think it fit with the Chinese Sichuan. Areas along the Rhone Valley Rhone Valley strip strip was distributed from north to south, about 200 kilometers, its northern border areas with Burgundy, Northern Rhone wine with Burgundy wine similar to a single varieties of grape wine or two to three kinds of wine-based deployment; its southern bathed in Mediterranean sun and sea breeze under the grape variety from the deployment, and some even use 13 kinds of grape varieties. In France, the Rhone Valley wine producing areas of the largest Jiu Jin. The world's highest alcohol content of wine produced on its southern regions, alcohol is 16.2 degrees. This is mainly attributed to its unique cobblestone southern landscape, cobblestone sun during the day and absorb the sun's heat at night and then distributed to the vine, make more mature grapes, high alcohol.

Rhone Valley wine producing varieties with Syrah and Grenache-based, making it different from the Bordeaux wine-making methods of oak regimes. Rhone Valley wines rarely used new oak barrels, oak barrels and placed in a very short period of time. Rhone Valley wines of people think that their natural beauty, no oak flavor whitewash. Rhone Valley in France after producing the second largest AOC Bordeaux wine region. Their wines to wine, accounting for about 94% of total output.

Main producing areas in Hebei Rhone Rhone Valley, the Ministry of the edge of the white grape Syrah planted on steep slopes, well-known wine estate is the Côte Rôtie and Cornas wine garden garden, with flowers and spices produced Sauvignon Syrah wine taste. Hermitage red wine grapes are produced garden, good wine and strong durable storage of thick round white, Condrieu wine produced in the garden there is a delicious apricot fragrant and delicious liquor.

The southern Rhone Valley is bold, rich red wine-based production, such as Côtes du Rhône, the amount of alcohol or heavy enough, strong strong Châteauneuf du Pape (Pope Newcastle) and Gigondas. Northern Rhone region also produces some pink wine, rose wine, also known as Tavel estate, and a small amount of dry white wine.

AOC Rhone Valley wine-producing areas can be divided into three:

- Low-level is a large appellation AOC: Appellation + Rhone Valley, for example, producing + Controlee
- Intermediate is a village-level AOC: Appellation + Beaumes de Venise, such as the village name + Controlee
- Advanced is the name of CRU AOC: If Appellation + Chateauneuf-du-Pape name + Controlee
Village-level AOC:

Rhone Valley production area of ​​95 villages by the middle of the wine, the quality is higher than the basic level AOC, Rhone Valley, the village level can be referred to as AOC, the Cotes du Rhone Villages. Of these, only 16 villages in the wine labels were marked on their villages.

These 16 villages are: Chusclan, Landun, St Gervais, Rochegude, St Maurice, St Pantaleon, Rousset les Vignes, Vinsobres, Beaumes de Venise, Cairanne, Rasteau, Roaix, Sablet, Seguret, Valreas, Visan.
Of which: Beaumes de Venise villages with honey Sijia natural sweet wine grapes are very famous.

CRU-level AOC:
Rhone Valley region produced a total of 13 of the most advanced wine, known as CRU. Are:

Regional production areas CRU
Northern Rhone Cote Rotie, Condrieu, Chateau Grillet, St Joseph, Crozes Hermitage, Hermitage, Cornas, St Peray
Nan Luona Chateauneuf du Pape, GigondasVacqueyras, Lirac, Tavel