France is one of the oldest wine productor countries in Europe, since the Middle Ages the wine has been used and produced in monasteries until now it's always used in the mass at different churches, in this period the most part of vineyards were bought by the monasteries, producing a good wine. But with the French Revolution many vineyards owned by monasteries were confiscated.

As food, there are wine for each region, the Bourdeaux, Burgundy and so on, another french drink is the champagne or white wine, both of them are important agricultural products, the wine regions in France are: Alsace, Beaujolais, Bergerac, Bordeaux, Bourgogne, Champagne, Jura, Loire Valley, Rhone Valley and the Languedoc-Roussillon region.

You can ask for a cup of wine in every city, you'll know that many french people drink wine everyday, but you'll better remember that driving after have been drinking some kind of alcohol will cost you many penalties.

There is a strong relation between food and wine in France, maybe this is because wine and food were evolving in a parallel form. That's why some of the best french couisine examples have in their recipes as an important ingredient the wine. It's said that for every food there is the perfect wine, in France the wine is drunk as an aperitif.

The different types of wine is depending the variety of grapes, for example within the Black grape varieties there are:

« Cabernet franc, grows in Bordeaux, Charentes, Sud-Ouest, Val de Loire
« Cabernet sauvignon, grows in Bordeaux, Charentes, Languedoc - Roussillon, Provence, Sud-Ouest, Val de Loire
« Carignan, grows in Languedoc - Roussillon, Provence, Vallée du Rhône
« Cinsaut, grows in Languedoc - Roussillon, Provence, Vallée du Rhône
« Gamay, grows in Beaujolais, Bourgogne, Jura - Savoie, Sud-Ouest, Val de Loire
« Grenache, grows in Languedoc - Roussillon, Provence, Vallée du Rhône
« Grolleau, grows in Bourgogne, Val de Loire
« Merlot, grows in Bordeaux, Charentes, Languedoc - Roussillon, Sud-Ouest
« Mourvèdre, grows in Languedoc - Roussillon, Provence, Vallée du Rhône
« Pinot noir, grows in Alsace, Bourgogne, Champagne, Jura - Savoie, Val de Loire
« Sciacarello, grows in Corse
« Syrah, grows in Languedoc - Roussillon, Provence, Sud-Ouest, Vallée du Rhône
« Tannat, grows in Sud-Ouest, Val de Loire

And in the white grape varieties are:

« Aligoté, grows in Bourgogne
« Chardonnay, grows in Alsace, Bourgogne, Champagne, Jura - Savoie, Languedoc - Roussillon, Provence, Val de Loire
« Chenin, grows in Languedoc - Roussillon, Sud-Ouest, Val de Loire
« Gewurztraminer, grows in Alsace
« Marsanne, grows in Languedoc - Roussillon, Provence, Vallée du Rhône
« Mauzac, grows in Languedoc - Roussillon, Sud-Ouest
« Melon, grows in Val de Loire
« Muscat blanc, grows in Alsace, Corse, Provence
« Petit Manseng, grows in Sud-Ouest
« Pinot gris, grows in Alsace
« Riesling, grows in Alsace
« Rolle ou Vermentinu, grows in Corse, Provence, Vallée du Rhône
« Roussanne, grows in Languedoc - Roussillon, Vallée du Rhône
« Sauvignon blanc, grows in Bordeaux, Bourgogne, Languedoc - Roussillon, Provence, Sud-Ouest, Val de Loire, Vallée du Rhône
« Sémillon, grows in Bordeaux, Charentes, Sud-Ouest, Val de Loire

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