Regions & Areas

Regions & Areas

 Regions of France

• Map of France
• Alsace
• Bordeaux
• Burgundy and Beaujolais
• Champagne
• Jura
• Languedoc Roussillon
• Provence Corse
• Savoie
• Sud Ouest
• Loire Valley
• Rhône Valley
• Others

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 Regions of Spain

• Regions and areas from Spain

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 Regions and areas from the world

• Regions and areas Country by Country

 Grape varieties

 Grape varieties

The wine grape varieties and their universe

• The wine grape and the berry
• The aroma of the white wine grape varieties
• The aroma of the red wine grape varieties
• The complete list

Cook & Wine

Cook & Wine

The recipes and the associated wines

• Introduction
• The starters
• The dishes
• The cheeses
• The desserts

Wine Cellar

Wine Cellar

The advices to organize and manage his cellar

• Introduction
• The storage conditions
• The racks in the wine cellar
• The wine cellar composition proposals

Vintages & Classifications

Vintages & Classifications

Classifications in Bordeaux

• The Graves Classification of 1959
• The Medoc Classification of 1855
• The Medoc Cru Bourgeois Classification of 2003
• The Unofficial Classification of Pomerol
• The Saint Emilion Classification of 2006
• The Sauternes and Barsac Classification of 1855

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The Vintage tables of France

• Introduction
• The Vintage tables of Alsace and Lorraine
• The Vintage tables of Beaujolais
• The Vintage tables of Bordeaux
• The Vintage tables of Burgundy
• The Vintage tables of Champagne
• The Vintage tables of Loire Valley
• The Vintage tables of Rhône Valley

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The Vintage tables of the world

• Introduction
• The Vintage tables of Argentina
• The Vintage tables of Australia
• The Vintage tables of Austria
• The Vintage tables of Chile
• The Vintage tables of Germany
• The Vintage tables of Italy
• The Vintage tables of New-Zealand
• The Vintage tables of Portugal
• The Vintage tables of Spain
• The Vintage tables of South Africa
• The Vintage tables of United States

Wine universe

Wine universe

Wine labels

• Wine labels and legals
• The wine labels from Mouton-Rothschild
• The wine labels from Siran

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Wine bottles

• Wine bottle sizes
• Wine bottle shapes

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Wine stuff

• Glasses
• Corkscrews
• Cork

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Speaking about wine

• Wine dictionnary

The grapevine cluster and the grapevine berry

The grapevine structure

The grapevine cluster is made of a rachis and berries.

The rachis

On the central axis, we find the peduncle, with the pedicels. The rachis is made of all green parts of a cluster. The stalk is made for the most part with water, fibers, tannins and minerals.

The grapevine berry

The berry is made of:

• film or skin that surrounds the fruit. It is covered with a wax dust called bloom, which makes a non-wettable film. It includes yeast involved during the fermentation.
  The film contains odorous substances and coloring tannins smoother than the ones from the rachis.
• pulp, with juice made of water, sugars and acids.
• seeds, 1 or 2 per berry, made of tannins and oils (0.5 l of oil for 1 hl of wine).

• Varietals with white skin and white pulp : blanc de blanc
• Varietals with red skin and white pulp: blanc de noir
• Varietals with red skin and red pulp:dyer varietal