Exploring Wine

It’s handy to have a map of the French Wine Regions in mind as you explore the various wines that make them famous.
This map and the others on this site are a start but if you really want to learn more about the geography of French wine, you will need a more detailed guide. A [...]

The wines of Spain, like its people, are diverse, robust, and full of life. The roots of Spanish wine making go back thousands of years and form a proud tradition of quality. Nowhere is this more evident than in Andalusia, where sherry is the beverage of choice.
Spotlight on Sherry
A fortified wine (distilled alcohol is added [...]

Italy is a fascinating patchwork of wine making districts. This map will help you sort them out.

Tuscany
Chianti
Emilia-Romagna

Piedmont
Sicily

The wine making tradition in sunny Sicily dates back as far as four thousand years. Over those millennia the Sicilians, named for the settlers who introduced agriculture there, have raised wine grape growing to the level of the Italian Renaissance artist.
In the far west, nestled among the rugged Gibellina Mountains is their masterpiece: the Mazara [...]

One of three main Italian wine making regions, Piedmont lies at the confluence of the Tanaro and Borbera rivers, 45km (28 mi) southeast of Turin in northwest Italy. Moderately remote in this crowded modern world, it’s braced by the Alps to the north and the Apennines to the south.
Bordered by the French and Swiss Alps, [...]

Stretching from the hills of the Apennines to the banks of the Po River to the shores of the Adriatic Sea is a distinctive Italian wine making region called: Emilia-Romagna. Famed for its cooking, the area boasts some of the most fertile plains for grape growing in Italy.
The regional capital of Bologna joins the two [...]