The volcanic soils. That's right. Volcanoes make your wine taste different. Here in the Auvergne, the bristling tectonic plates put pressure on the magma below causing spurts of it to shoot up and ...

This time, however, the quantity over quality dialectic has reversed and in November 2010 a new AOC was created - the Côte d'Auvergne. Its defining characteristic (outside from its relative obscurity) ...

Chaîne des Puys, encompassing the Limagne fault, is a string of 80 dormant volcanoes that crater the ... Puys does indeed produce wine. Côtes d’Auvergne, a wine subregion of the Loire Valley ...