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unusual facts about wine region



Bechtheim

After Worms (1 490 ha), Nierstein (783 ha), Alzey (769 ha), Westhofen (764 ha) and Alsheim (704 ha), Bechtheim is Rhenish Hesse’s sixth biggest winegrowing municipality, and one of the biggest in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Circle Oaks, California

Circle Oaks is a small unincorporated community in the hills to the northeast of the world-famed wine region, Napa Valley.

Gros Manseng

Gros Manseng (sometimes translated: Large Manseng, rarely "Big Manseng") is a white wine grape variety that is grown primarily in South West France, and is part of the Manseng family.

Mailly-Champagne

The village's vineyards are located in the Montagne de Reims subregion of Champagne, and are classified as Grand Cru (100%) in the Champagne vineyard classification.

Mareuil-sur-Ay

Its vineyards are located in the Vallée de la Marne subregion of Champagne, and are classified as Premier Cru (99%) in the Champagne vineyard classification.

Marlies Dumbsky

Marlies Dumbsky (born 1985), from the German wine region of Franconia, was the 2008/09 German Wine Queen.

Nadine Poss

Nadine Poss (born 1991), from Windesheim in the German wine region of Nahe, was chosen as the 65th German Wine Queen on 13 Sep 2013 in Offenburg, as the successor to Julia Bertram from the Ahr wine region.

Silvaner

In Germany it is best known as a component of Liebfraumilch and production boomed in the 1970s to the detriment of quality, but it has long enjoyed a better reputation in Franconia than in other German wine regions.

Sonja Christ

Sonja Christ-Brendemühl (née Christ; born 1984), from the German wine region of Mosel ("Moselle"), was chosen as the 61st German Wine Queen on 9 Oct 2009 in the city of Heilbronn, as the successor to Marlies Dumbsky from the Franconian wine region.

Steinberg, Kloster Eberbach

However, for all these other vineyards, the name Steinberg will be used together with a village name, such as Durbacher Steinberg (in Baden) or Niederhäuser Steinberg (in Nahe).

Tauxières-Mutry

Its vineyards are located in the Montagne de Reims subregion of Champagne, and are classified as Premier Cru (99%) in the Champagne vineyard classification.

The Greengage Summer

Set in Épernay, in the Champagne region of France, it is the story of the transition of a teenage girl into womanhood.

The Wine Advocate

Throughout various wine regions, most notably Bordeaux, The Wine Advocate early vintage evaluation-sampled while the wine is still in oak barrels-can have a dramatic effect on the eventual prices of all the region's wine upon their release.

Weingut Wittmann

Weingut Wittmann is a German wine grower and producer based Westhofen, in the Wonnegau district of the wine-growing region of Rheinhessen, Germany.

Winemaking cooperative

One of the first winemaking cooperatives founded on the basis of this legislation, Winzerverein Mayschoß, was established in 1868 in the Ahr region and is the oldest German winemaking cooperative still in existence.

A union of winemakers in Neckarsulm in Württemberg pressed grapes and sold the resulting must, and to some extent also wine, cooperatively as early as 1834.


see also

Crépy

Crépy AOC, a French wine appellation in the Savoy wine region

David Schildknecht

An authority on the wine of Germany and Austria, he also considers the Loire Valley a specialty, a wine region he has described as "the bargain garden of France".

Flor

A similar yeast to flor is used in the production of Szamorodni szaraz in the Tokaj wine region in northeastern Hungary.

Gironde estuary

The Île Margaux is 25 ha and in 2005 had 14 ha devoted to vines and is part of the world famous Médoc wine region.

Gone with the Wine

Jaakko visits the Torres winery in the home region of Spain’s most famous wine, Sangre de Toro, in the wine region of Penedes.

Gruyere

Gruyere, Victoria, a town in the Yarra Valley wine region east of Melbourne, Australia

New Zealand Falcon

In 2005 funding was given by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry towards a programme that uses the falcons to control birds that damage grapes and act as pests in vineyards as well as monitoring the birds and establishing a breeding population in the vicinity of the Marlborough wine region.

Niagara Escarpment AVA

This wine region is less developed with more open spaces than the 70 or so Niagara Peninsula wineries on the Canadian side of the Niagara River, but shares the same terroir.

Norte Region, Portugal

There are also scenic natural parks and mountain ranges, such as the Peneda-Gerês National Park, the Montesinho Natural Park, the Alvão Natural Park and four World Heritage Sites: the Alto Douro Wine Region, the Prehistoric Rock-Art Sites in the Côa Valley, the Porto historical Center and the Guimarães historical Center.

Pannonhalma

The Pannonhalma-Sokoró wine region consists of 630 hectares and the main white grape varieties grown here are Pinot gris, Chardonnay, Rhine and Italian Riesling, Királyleányka, and Traminer (Gewürztraminer).

Santa Barbara County, California

The 2004 Alexander Payne film, Sideways, set in the Santa Maria Valley, brought additional attention to the county as a wine region.

St Mary's Anglican Girls' School

In 2005, the St Mary’s Anglican Girls’ School Foundation purchased 100 acres of land in the Margaret River Wine Region.

Warburton Highway

The Warburton Highway is a 35 kilometre west-east semi-rural highway starting on the eastern fringes of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia) at the Maroondah Highway just after Lilydale, connecting Melbourne to the Yarra Valley wine region and its towns, as well as Melbourne's closest mountain peak to receive regular snowfall, Mount Donna Buang.