Ice wine is wine made with frozen grape. This wine is very famous for is natural sugar proportion and non-acidity taste.
Global warming has a direct effect on the wine regions with temperatures rising and phenolic maturation period that shifts over time.
The nights are cool enough and the flavors are burned by the heat. To overcome this problem, the only solution is to plant varieties better adapted to the new climate that the original vines.
The oldest wine knowing in the world is in a cellar of an abbay in Strasbourg since 539 ans. It’s an Alsace wine from 1472.
French people drink an average of 1.3 glass of wine per day per habitant.
With an impressive size of 2.40 meter of high and 1.65 meter of length, the biggest glasse in the world could contains 1 557 liter of wine.
The most 10 grapes cultivated in the world are : Sultanine B, Airen B, Grenache N, Merlot N, Ugni blanc B, Cabernet sauvignon N, Carignan N, Chardonnay B, Dattier de Beyrouth B, Sangiovese R.
4 sites listed in UNESCO
Four wineries are sites designated by UNESCO as World Heritage:
Saint-Émilion
Winery of Pico’s Island
Winery of valley of Haut Douro
Winery of Lavaux
