CLIMBING THE APPELLATION LADDER
SOMETIMES it can be tough to keep pace with what’s going on in the European wine world. When we start learning about European countries and regions, we’re introduced to the various appellation systems in each country, how they arose out of a post-phylloxera environment in which fraud was common, often wine from outside a region being brought in. Appellations - delimited zones of production - were created to guarantee origin. What’s in the bottle comes from where it says on the label - Pauillac from the commune of Pauillac in Bordeaux, Chateauneuf-du-Pape from the area around the village of the same name in the Rhone. It’s all too easy
