The communes of Bourgueil, Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil, Restigné, Benais, and Ingrandes produce fine red wines.
Among the famous communes of the Medoc, St.-Julien has always been noted for its rounder, more approachable wines.
If any of the famous communes of the Médoc could be called laid back, it's St.-Julien.
The communes of the 13th century had become increasingly dominated by the conflicts of the nobility who controlled their governments.
It is evident, however, that the communes of northern and central Italy benefited from the Investiture Controversy.
The Lower Country, to the north, is divided into the communes of Eschen, Mauren, Gamprin, Ruggell, and Schellenberg.
To the south, the more industrial Upper Country contains the communes of Vaduz, Balzers, Triesen, Triesenberg, Schaan, and Planken.
His colleague Philipp Melanchthon, in the Loci Communes of 1521, was much more concerned with systematic discipline.
If a village wants to see itself as a vestige of a certain sort of Englishness, let it do so, like the "free communes" of Scandinavia.
Forty years ago, the wine communes of the Cote Chalonnaise, south of the Cote d'Or, were a source of mediocre wines used mostly in inexpensive sparkling Burgundy.
Those who stayed eventually built houses along the ridges or bought adjacent land and started homesteads and communes of their own.
