#2.1 French wine regions (part1) | Wine Rendez-Vous

French sommelier Olivier Magny from WineRendezVous.com takes you on a tour through France’s wine regions using a map to illustrate. (part 1)

okay Emily and this is you one running French wines are confusing let’s face it it’s a huge huge mess so what I’m going to do today is try to give you a little presentation to really give you the key information where you find the points you like in which regions of France so you can really in like two or the five or ten minutes get a good outlook of French wines well hello starting here oh I know some of you watching here are in the u.s. so maybe a little reminder for you guys this is France okay I get no email thankful Paris is right here okay every has to be a wine region but no longer is because of the industrialization obviously around here you find its first region called the shopping okay so in shopping what they do is sunlight almost exclusively and if you’re drinking something that maybe comes from there only only only otherwise you won’t because you’re buying it’s gonna be called spark in Lima which are mine is here the next region right here would be less us which is our friends makes a lot of wiser depending on the years between 20 and 25 percent of the world production – that’s a lot and even though we have a pretty small country we have a great variety of stalls and of climates we need to a huge variety of what the lands ax had this super continental climate hot in the summer cold in the winter so not many rapes and can handle this big temperature differences do you find things that are quite specific towards us with any friends priestly give them some sympathy Pinot Gris a Pinot Grigio if you like these great give it a shot that’s as you and they’re like okay that’s like both going here Jimmy Brown the best wine region of the world and the average is very high fine outstanding outstanding away one thing you might want to remember about burgundy the grapes white wine shop will make great wine okay and the shuttle is the best people in the world come from here and I will not tolerate any discussion on this okay moving around here you find the bullet the booze lands near the city of Rio in France Beaujolais makes very light fruity red ones okay if you like a very very light and feminine style of wine okay shop the butcher light you’ll be surprised that’s very much what we have for lunch in France you don’t want something destroy you for the afternoon oh you’re that good stuff don’t confuse bushel a bushel a new book the final celebration in November the wine it’s a bit officious sometimes so that’s one thing you find tons of watching which are not proportional things like we eat something lovely lovely fresh fruity what once a further says what’s furnaces how’s the weather is really much much much better so what’s the consequence in your in your glass well I’m the vitamin grates with the Sun are going to dry out less water more sugar so potentially stronger wine Indiana one hour much more powerful more concentrated if you like big red SAS is the way to go in France and in the rest of Europe if you go the average in Spanish the average Italian one they’re much cheaper much stronger that’s the Rhone Valley right here the Rhone Valley is twofold and the northern part of the room is very good here to this graphical to this great concealer which is called Sheila’s for instance in Australia but very light Shiraz Allah give a shout trial ever meet – cozy Armitage trials good ot all these are here and beautiful beautiful for sure in this asset value defined surety finding other graves – names like Grenache Satsuma Vale and those ones will become shuttle never too bad they’re gonna become good you own other names like us definitely stronger okay hitting now that for most of the course is a lovely lovely region to visit give it a shot you’ll find all these things in terms of art it’s an old wine region you find are their permanent not for the hoses and the retardant good was it tons of water but rock 30 wise big rats to upper coming really original worth discovering and worth visiting fishing you