Sentence examples for wine appellation from inspiring English sources

The wine growers petitioned the guardian of the French wine appellation system, the I.N.A.O., for a change of name.

In a generation, this 25-mile-long valley has gone from Northern California backwater to internationally known wine appellation.

Now they are famous as the first family of Hermitage, the great wine appellation just across the Rhône.

5 p.m. 1) TINY TOWN Take Highway 128 to the coast, passing through the Anderson Valley wine appellation and following the redwood banks of the Navarro River to Highway 1 and the turbulent Pacific.

But now, it is on the rise again, producing dense red wines that are sought all over the world and putting Spain's more famous wine appellation, Rioja, on notice.

The Douro Valley, which stretches almost 100 miles from the Serra do Marão mountains toward the Spanish border, was designated a wine appellation in 1756, making it one of the world's oldest.

But wines from Chinon and Bourgueil, the two biggest red wine appellations in the Touraine region of the Loire?

Red, white and yellow The Jura has four wine appellations — Arbois, Côtes du Jura, l'Étoile and Château-Chalon.

The Tricastin vineyards are no closer to the plant than those of several other wine appellations in the Rhône.

Unusually among great French wine appellations, Châteauneuf-du-Pape has no official classification to designate superior vineyards, like the grands crus and premiers crus of Burgundy.

In other words, you wouldn't necessarily know that wines from Chablis, a subregion of Burgundy with four wine appellations, are made of chardonnay.