Chemins Vignerons

Appellation: Legally defined wine-growing region under French law, appellation refers to the place where the grapes are grown. Many appellations have official status, which delimits and regulates usage in order to assure both quality and authenticity.
An appellation may be as large as an entire region, encompassing hundreds of thousands of hectares or acres and many separate vineyards, or as small as a single vineyard of perhaps four acres or less.
Most of the best-known wines from France are appellation wines. Appellations are also used to identify most of the wines of Italy, Germany, Spain and Portugal.