My assignment on Wine in Bordeaux

As part of my work for E-School I had to do an assignment - this is my assignment on wine facts.

Wine facts

A wine region is called an appellation.

Roots of the vine dig as long as they need to find water. Digs as long as forty meters.

In Bordeaux there are different wine regions all so known as appellations (AOC) we stayed in the st Emilion (AOC)

The AOC have very strict rules eg:

• How close the vines are. 
• How many grapes you can grow on each vine 
• When harvest can begin 
• What info can be put on the wine bottles

In St Emilion the start of the harvest is announced in September at the Vintage Banns from the top of the Tour de Roy.

White wine is always harvested before red wine

The soil the vines is very rough and rocky and sometimes has shells in it.

Some vines are harvested by hand, these are usually the very best and most expensive wines.  Others are harvested by machine.  We saw a harvest by machine of the vines behind our house.

BY LILY O’DONNELL