all right I’m Angela IO and today we are learning about French wine now potentially French wine can be a little confusing however I think that if once you learn a little bit you can be really confident especially walking into any wine store and knowing about what type of wine you like what’s on the label and really what’s in the bottle because what’s on the label and what’s in the bottle is actually completely different so that’s going to be our first step today is talking about wine regions in France let’s talk about France probably one of the oldest growing regions in the world and next to Italy grows the most amount of grapes and has the most amount of Vineyards than any other wine growing region in the world okay so let’s look at the climate of France in the north we have cooler climates with regions like Lair champagne and alsas and then in the middle we’ve got places like balet and burgundy and then in the South which is warmer we’ve got places like the rone Bordeaux and a couple other very popular regions for instance let’s look at this French lab liboro but it has P Noir on it which is good but liboro is a region called burgundy in France so unless PIR is actually on the bottle which sometimes it’s not you have to understand that in burgundy All The Vineyards that are in burgundy that are red are pen Noir here we have shabi which is also a region in France but shabi is actually chardonay and typically this bottle is uned you can do Chardonnay one of two ways in stainless steel or an oak shabes like I said are typically uned now let’s talk about champagne now nothing can be called champagne unless it comes from Champagne France everything else in the world needs to be called sparkling wine or another name that they’ve called it to actually bring that back to their region this is a bottle of champagne now champagne is typically made with chardonay P Noir and P munier I’ll go into more about French sparkling wine in a later video the most popular region probably from France is Bordeaux now Bordeaux typically is a blend of five different varietal but you never know that from the label because it just says Bordeaux on here you need to know that there are actually five main grapes grown in Bordeaux which include cap Fran cab so Mero melbeck and petite verox they are all blended into one bottle to give you Bordeaux so there you have it after learning a little bit about French wine the region the climate labels and varietals the next time you pop into the wine store and feel like getting a bottle of wine wine go to the French wine section and buy a bottle with confidence
