french_wine_guide

 French Wine Guide

English - Français - Deutsch - Nederlands
  

Wine  I  RegionsGame  I  Club  I  Buy Wine

French wine guide  >  regions  >  cotes du rhone  >  cotes du rhone region information

 
 

rhone

Other wine pages :
Wines of the Rhone Valley
French wine regions
French wine guide
Buy Rhone wines

 

rhone_valley
Buy this poster !

 

rhone
Buy this poster !

 

 

Recommended book

New France, a complete guide to french wine
by Andrew Jefford

Learn more

Hardcover, 256 pages

buy wine book

 

 

Rhone Valley region information

 
Rhône wines: 10 wines in the French Wine Guide

The Côtes du Rhône (Rhône Valley) is a long narrow area which stretches on both banks of the Rhône river banks.

Côtes du Rhône begins just south of Lyon and finishes 200 kilometres (125 miles) further, just south of Avignon.

Read more about Côtes du Rhône wines with Amazon.com:
- Rhone Valley: The 90 Greatest Wines

 

Côtes du Rhône Region Information :
 

Location: In the Rhône valley, south of Lyon to the Mediterranean Sea
Size: On 6 French departments: Rhône, Loire, Ardèche, Drôme, Gard and Vaucluse
Weather: Continental in the north of the Rhône region (cold winter warm summer)
Mediterranean in the south (mild winter hot summer)
Population: roughly 2,500,000
population of 6 departments including Lyon city
Main Cities in Rhone:

Lyon (1,300,000 including county)
Avignon (90,000)
Montélimar (32,000)
Orange (30,000)
Vienne (30,000)

Places of Interest:

Avignon (heritage, Pope's palace)
Côtes du Rhône wine road (north and south)
Vienne (heritage city)
Pont du Gard (roman water-bridge)

 
Read more about Côtes du Rhône wines with Amazon.com :
- Rhone Valley: The 90 Greatest Wines

About the Rhone Valley wine region :
Wines of Rhône - Côtes du Rhône wine information - Côtes du Rhône region information - Rhône wine history - Rhône wine making - Côtes du Rhône map - Rhône wine and food - Buy Rhône wines - Rhône main page

Wines from Côtes du Rhône :
Côte Rôtie - Condrieu - Château Grillet - Hermitage - Crozes Hermitage - Cornas - Côtes du Rhône aoc - Côtes du Rhône villages - Gigondas - Châteauneuf du Pape - Côtes du Ventoux - Wines from Côtes du Rhône

Other french wine regions :
Alsace - Bordeaux - Burgundy - Champagne - Corsica - Languedoc-Roussillon - Loire Valley - Provence - South West

 

 
 

french wine regions | grape varieties | winemaking | classification in France | wine tasting | wine and food | wine faq | legendary wines | wine shop | french wine guide

 

Recommend this page (to yourself or to a friend!)

  

Terroir-France

French Wine Guide (english)

Guide des vins de France (french)

Französische Weine (deutsch)

De Gids voor Franse wijnen (nederlands)

Contact:
mail@ terroir-france + ".com"

guide

This material may not be published, rewritten, or redistributed

© Terroir-France, French Wine Guide 2014