Different appellation laws in each of the countries where fortified wines are produced dictate which types of brandies or in some cases, neutral spirits, are permitted in the production process, as well as which types of grapes are permitted in the base wine.
In France, there are 400 to 450 different appellations".
These are producers who buy grapes from growers in several different appellations throughout the Rhône valley, and bottle the wines under their own labels.
Eventually, he said, he would like to make several St.-Josephs, each expressing a different terroir within the appellation, but he believes he doesn't yet understand the terroirs well enough to separate the individual wines from the blend.
The subject was zinfandel, and our goal was not merely to focus on a year or an appellation.
Though it is now referred to by a number of different names — "hash mark," "number sign," and even "octothorpe," a jokey appellation coined by engineers working on the Touch-Tone telephone keypad — the phrase "pound sign" can be traced to the symbol's ancient origins.
Wines from a single appellation - like "Valle de Uco" - can also have grapes from dozens of different parcels that sit miles away from each other.
What a wonderful appellation!
Those standards include a national appellation.
Such a nondescript appellation will never win popular approval.
The Sonoma Coast itself is such a huge appellation that over-generalizing can be dangerous.
