Where Are the Most Popular Wine Tours in France and Italy?
France is home to some of the most famous vineyards throughout the world. The more popular tours cover Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, Loire, Provence, Alsace, and Rhone. Often times visitors choose to enhance their wine tasting tours with trips to Paris or cities like Avignon and Reims to do more sightseeing and gain a taste of French culture. Visitors can taste at prestige estates, or simply at casual boutiques throughout the country. The more popular wines are Bordeaux and Burgundy breeds. Italy has four major wine producing zones. Tuscany is the most popular because its diverse geography produces a vast spectrum of wine–the most known is Chianti but there are more than thirty others. Sicily is exotic, offering rich wines, and is well known for longstanding traditions. In villages and the rolling hills of Piedmont one can find elite wine selections with a classic taste. Throughout Veneto and Fruili, two regions often visited as one, wine producers focus on complementing meals, and p