Château-Grillet is a wine-growing AOC and vineyard in the northern Rhône valley near Vienne in Isère, making rare, expensive white wine from the Viognier grape. The single estate of Château Grillet forms the entire appellation, a situation known as a monopole. The wines are similar to those produced at Condrieu.
"New castle of the Pope." Châteauneuf-du-Pape is a village on the Rhône, south of Orange and west of Carpentras in Vaucluse. It is named after its castle which was built for the Popes who, in the 14th Century, were based in Avignon. This was the first wine in France to be awarded its own AOC in 1929. It produces the most famous red wine of the southern Rhône, mainly from Grenaches grapes, as well as a small amount of fine white wine.
A nickname for Puligny-Saint-Pierre, a cone-shaped, soft, fine-textured, moist goat’s milk cheese with a rind of natural mould and a complex flavour. It may have a coating of charcoal. (AOC). It is also a town in Berry.
