A guide to French Wine Regions

Guide to French Wine Regions

Know your Claret from your Cotes du Rhone? Taste your way round the wine regions of France with French Connections self catering holiday properties.

Wine is quite simply one of France's greatest exports. Take a wine tour round one of the regions of France and you'll soon discover just why French wine is admired and renowned the world over. Stay in one of our 3000 self catering properties along the way and you'll really experience all that France has to offer - fantastic scenery, friendly locals, and a passion for making the finest wine!

Champagne Wine Tours

Aah… Champagne! A wine that will always be a welcome, sparkling treat and a beautiful region with mile after mile of vineyards and small champagne producers to discover.
Champagne wine region guide

Burgundy Wine Tours

The great wine region of Burgundy is famous all over the world for its subtle Chardonnay whites and sensual Pinot Noir reds.
Burgundy wine region guide

Bordeaux Wine Tours

Best known for the world-famous Chateaux of the Medoc, Bordeaux also produces great wines from the south and east - places like Graves and St Emilion.
Bordeaux wine region guide

The Loire Wine Tours

The garden valley of France lines one of the longest rivers in Europe. The Loire is home to  delicious wines like Muscadet, Sancerre, Pouilly and Anjou that perfectly accompany local dishes.
The Loire wine region guide

Beaujolais Wine Tours

The very name suggests a picturesque location with pretty villages set among rolling hills.  Beaujolais offers all this - and gorgeously drinkable red wines too.
Beaujolais wine region guide

Rhone Valley Wine Tours

Lying south of Lyon, the Rhone stretches right to the Mediterranean and along the slopes of its valley are the vineyards of world famous wines such as Hermitage and Chateauneuf du Pape.
Rhone Valley wine region guide

Languedoc Wine Tours

A truly extraordinary region where majestic mountains and crags give way to fertile valleys - all producing rich red wines (recently much improved) from communes like St Chinian, Minervois and Corbieres.
Languedoc wine region guide

Roussillon Wine Tours

About as far south and west as you can go in France! With its Mediterranean sunshine, this is an exciting region of stunning red, white and rose wine development.
Roussillon wine region guide

South West Wine Tours

From the Dordogne in the north to the Lot valley in the south and the western Pyrenees, the South West is home to a fascinating range of grape varieties and styles producing luscious dessert wines of red, white and rose.
South West wine region guide

Provence Wine Tours

From the Alps in the north and east to the warm Mediterranean in the south, this is a region of sunkissed flowers, herbs and vines. No wonder it produces such excellent pale pink wines and rich, full reds.
Provence wine region guide