Wine & spirit regions
53 regions, each explained: where it is, what grows there, and the bottles from it.
Built for HORECA and trade buyers who work by origin — save a region's bottles to a list per guest segment.
France
Bordeaux
France's benchmark red region: maritime-climate, blend-based Left Bank (gravel, cabernet-driven) vs Right Bank (clay/limestone, merlot-driven), organised around the château system and the 1855 Classification.
356 bottles
Burgundy
France's most terroir-obsessed, cool-climate region: unblended chardonnay (whites) and pinot noir (reds), a Regional→Village→Premier Cru→Grand Cru quality ladder, and a fragmented domaine/monopole/négociant ownership system across Chablis, the Côte d'Or, the Côte Chalonnaise and Mâconnais.
270 bottles
Champagne
France's coolest great region and the only true Champagne: chalk-soiled, high-acid, made by the méthode traditionnelle (secondary in-bottle fermentation, long sur lie autolysis, dosage-set sweetness); always a blend of chardonnay, pinot noir and pinot meunier; a single AOC with a Grand Cru / Premier Cru village ranking.
221 bottles
Rhône Valley
Southeastern France's great red region in two distinct halves: the continental, granite Northern Rhône (single-grape SYRAH reds — Côte-Rôtie, Hermitage; viognier whites — Condrieu) and the Mediterranean Southern Rhône (grenache-led GSM blends — Châteauneuf-du-Pape, on galets stones).
97 bottles
Languedoc-Roussillon
The French wine region with the most vineyard area; diverse reds, whites, and vins doux naturels.
91 bottles
Provence
The world capital of rosé — accounting for nearly 90% of its production — with serious reds from Bandol.
26 bottles
Italy
Tuscany
Italy's quintessential region and sangiovese's heartland: the four great sangiovese reds (Chianti, Chianti Classico, Brunello di Montalcino, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano) off hilly, galestro/albarese-strewn slopes, with a firm espresso-like acidity-and-tannin bite; birthplace of the Super Tuscans.
261 bottles
Veneto
The north's biggest wine region by volume, home to three classics: Soave (garganega white, east of Verona), Valpolicella and its powerful amarone (corvina, dried by the appassimento method to a full-bodied 15-16% 'great bitter one'), and Prosecco (glera sparkling, the Bellini's base).
202 bottles
Piedmont
Italy's preeminent fine-wine region and nebbiolo's homeland: the tannic, ageworthy 'king and queen' reds Barolo & Barbaresco (Langhe hills around Alba, tar-and-roses aromatics born of the autumn 'nebbia' fog), with barbera and dolcetto as the everyday reds.
200 bottles
Sicily
The Italian region with the most land area, post-1980s revitalised for quality: mainstay nero d'Avola makes intensely black, concentrated reds; high, cold Mt. Etna gives snappy carricante whites and pale, bitter nerello reds; plus the dessert legends moscato passito di Pantelleria, malvasia delle Lipari and fortified Marsala.
82 bottles
Puglia
Sun-drenched Apulia (Puglia), the heel of the boot, is Italy's most prolific region — mostly rustic bargain reds from negroamaro (Salice Salentino), nero di Troia and primitivo (the zinfandel grape), the last made both dry and as the sweet DOCG primitivo di Manduria dolce naturale.
74 bottles
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Northeastern, Austrian/Slovenian-influenced Friuli is acclaimed for racy, taut white wines of Teutonic precision and grip — pinot grigio, ribolla gialla, sauvignon and the local friulano — though merlot-led reds are over 40 percent of production.
40 bottles
Abruzzo
Sunny, high-altitude, co-op-dominated Abruzzi in central Italy is most widely known for the rustic, solidly built red montepulciano d'Abruzzo (top: the DOCG Colline Teramane) and its light cherry-red cerasuolo, plus the everyday white trebbiano d'Abruzzo.
39 bottles
Campania
Volcanic Campania (around Naples/Vesuvius) is one of the south's two most exciting regions: red aglianico makes the ageworthy, almost-blackish DOCG Taurasi, while cool-hillside whites — greco (greco di Tufo), fiano and falanghina — burst with freshness.
17 bottles
Marche
Adriatic central-Italian region and home of verdicchio: usually simple, clean whites, but racy, bold and crisp at the top sites and low yields.
16 bottles
Sardinia
Remote, Spanish-influenced Sardinia: bold, spicy, dried-herb cannonau (garnacha) is the flagship red, while dry, herb-scented vermentino (finest as vermentino di Gallura) is the island's essential white, alongside the Sherry-like vernaccia di Oristano.
8 bottles
Australia
South Australia
The driest state on the driest continent and the source of more than half of all Australian wine — home to the Barossa, Clare Valley, McLaren Vale, Coonawarra, Eden Valley and Adelaide Hills.
299 bottles
South Eastern Australia
Not a state and, in a sense, not a place — a legal blending designation covering grapes grown thousands of miles apart across three states. For these wines the producer's name is the guide to quality.
104 bottles
Barossa Valley
Australia's most renowned region — rich, sappy shiraz with a concentrated core of vivid berriness over wild lavender, spice and licorice, yet with superb structure, balance and precision.
82 bottles
Margaret River
Australia's 'little Bordeaux' on the remote west coast, where the warm Indian and cold Southern Oceans collide — elegant, structured cabernet and lovely sémillon/sauvignon blanc blends.
34 bottles
McLaren Vale
Shiraz country on the Fleurieu Peninsula — powerful and ripe but sleek in structure, with a dramatic lift of spice, black olive, menthol and dark chocolate.
33 bottles
Victoria
Mainland Australia's smallest and most southern wine state — 820+ producers across a dozen districts fanning out from Melbourne, from cool coastal pinot noir to Rutherglen's sweet muscats.
25 bottles
Coonawarra
A cigar-shaped strip of terra rossa over limestone with a maritime climate like Bordeaux's — one of Australia's leading regions for structured cabernet sauvignon.
13 bottles
Adelaide Hills
A cool-climate region just east of Adelaide — one of Australia's most diverse, growing everything from riesling and sauvignon blanc to shiraz and cabernet.
6 bottles
USA
California
Source of more than 90 percent of all US wine — a diverse, largely beneficent climate producing a profusion of styles from dozens of grape varieties, and one of the world's most technologically oriented wine regions.
310 bottles
Napa Valley
California's most widely known wine region and the state's first AVA (1981) — a small, mountain-flanked valley of extraordinary soil diversity making its most polished, classy cabernet sauvignons.
154 bottles
Sonoma County
California's Provence — more than twice the size of Napa, a patchwork of sixteen viticultural areas governed by a pendulum climate of coastal fog and sunshine, warm days and cool nights.
48 bottles
Oregon
Pinot noir country — a cool, marginal, nerve-racking climate that is precisely the cradle of its success, giving wines of grace, focus and richness without heaviness.
7 bottles
Paso Robles
Central California wine region known for bold Rhone-style blends, Zinfandel, and Cabernet Sauvignon with extreme diurnal swings.
5 bottles
Chile
Central Valley
Chile's historic wine centre — a broad, fertile expanse between the Andes and the Coastal Range, spanning the Maipo, Cachapoal, Colchagua, Curicó and Maule sub-valleys.
286 bottles
Colchagua Valley
Fast becoming 'the Napa of Chile' — with Maipo, the source of most of the country's icon wines, above all from the tiny moon-shaped district of Apalta.
99 bottles
Maipo Valley
One of Chile's oldest wine regions, edged up against Santiago — headquarters of the great historic wineries and, with Colchagua, the source of most of the country's icon wines.
60 bottles
Casablanca Valley
Chile's cool, coastal, avant-garde white-wine district — planted with sauvignon blanc and chardonnay in the 1990s land rush, and the home of its zesty, bold sauvignons.
20 bottles
Cachapoal Valley
A Valle Central sub-valley neighbouring Colchagua — the two are sometimes labelled together as the Rapel Valley.
19 bottles
Aconcagua Valley
The warmish inland heart of the Aconcagua DO, home to Errázuriz — with the Valle Central, one of the two areas that make up Chile's historic wine centre.
9 bottles
Japan
New Zealand
Marlborough
The region whose sauvignon blanc put New Zealand on the world wine map — explosive yet taut wines evoking a whole spectrum of fresh greens over an exotic tropical backdrop.
84 bottles
Hawke's Bay
A warmer North Island region in one of the coolest maritime wine countries of the New World — a long, gentle growing season yielding wines of pure, intense flavour.
14 bottles
Central Otago
Home to the southernmost vineyards on earth and a leading source of New Zealand's earthy, elegant pinot noir.
13 bottles
Martinborough
A small North Island region at the southern tip of the Wairarapa, known with Marlborough and Central Otago for New Zealand's earthy, elegant pinot noir.
7 bottles
Argentina
Scotland
Spain
Rioja
Spain's preeminent wine region for more than a century and the first to be awarded DOCa status (1991) — tempranillo-based reds defined by long aging in oak, along the Ebro River in the remote interior of northern Spain.
38 bottles
Catalunya
Catalonia — Spain's most dynamic province and, through the Penedès, the home of cava, the traditional-method sparkling wine produced here since the 1870s.
32 bottles
Ribera del Duero
The poster image of conquistador Spain — rugged ocher mesas on a high plateau north of Madrid, making bold, concentrated, long-lived reds from tinto fino, the local clone group of tempranillo.
16 bottles
Priorat
A tiny, rugged Catalonian region of black slate (llicorella) whose low-yielding old garnacha and cariñena vines make some of the most intense, inky and powerful reds in Spain. Holds the top DOCa rank.
5 bottles
Germany
Mosel
Where Germany's most ravishingly elegant wines are made — riesling of crystalline clarity from the steepest vineyards in Germany, on grey-blue slate above a snaking river gorge.
21 bottles
Rheinhessen
A German wine region in the Rhine heartland — part of a country considered one of the world's top producers of elegant white wines.
11 bottles
Rheingau
The region on which Germany's white-wine reputation was historically built — a continuous south-facing slope above the Rhine giving richer, rounder, more voluptuous riesling.
6 bottles
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Portugal
Austria
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