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.
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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) |
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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
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