About French Wine
France has a long and fascinating heritage as the mother of all wine-producing countries. History, experience and exceptional terroir have all played a key role in building the French reputation to what it has always been and its fame it still is today.
France is the source of many grape varieties that are now planted throughout the world, as well as several wine-making practices and styles of wine that are copied and imitated in other producing countries. Although some producers have benefited in recent years from rising prices and increased demand for some of the prestige wine from Burgundy and Bordeaux, the French wine industry as a whole has been influenced by a decline in domestic consumption as well as growing competition from European nations as well as nations from the new world.
