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Caladoc is a red French ___MASK85___ ___MASK47___ ___MASK28___ planted primarily in the southern ___MASK85___ regions such as the Languedoc . The ___MASK47___ is a crossing of Grenache and Malbec created by Paul Truel in 1958 at Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique ( INRA ) . While the ___MASK47___ is used in several vin de pays in the Languedoc and Provence ___MASK85___ regions , it is not officially permitted in any Appellation d ' Origine Contrôlée ( AOC ) wines . A Bordeaux ___MASK85___ is any ___MASK85___ produced in the Bordeaux region of France , centred on the ___MASK80___ of Bordeaux and covering the whole area of the Gironde department , with a total vineyard area of over 120 , 000 hectares , making it the largest ___MASK85___ growing area in France . Average vintages produce over 700 million bottles of Bordeaux ___MASK85___ , ranging from large quantities of everyday ___MASK7___ ___MASK85___ , to some of the most expensive and prestigious wines in the world . The vast majority of ___MASK85___ produced in Bordeaux is red ( called " claret " in Britain ), with sweet white wines ( most notably Sauternes ), dry whites , and ( in much smaller quantities ) rosé and sparkling wines ( Crémant de Bordeaux ) collectively making up the remainder . Bordeaux ___MASK85___ is made by more than 8 , 500 producers or " châteaux ". There are 54 appellations of Bordeaux ___MASK85___ . ___MASK89___ is a type of wine made from dark - colored ( black ) grape varieties . The actual color of the wine can ___MASK3___ from intense violet , typical of young wines , through to brick red for mature wines and brown for older red wines . The juice from most purple grapes is greenish - white ; the red color comes from anthocyan pigments ( also called anthocyanins ) present in the skin of the grape ; exceptions are the relatively uncommon teinturier varieties , which produce a red colored . Much of the red - wine production process therefore involves extraction of color and flavor components from the grape skin . Production . Grape processing . The first step in red wine production , after picking , involves physical processing of the grapes . Hand - picked or machine - harvested grapes are usually tipped into a receival bin when they arrive at the winery and conveyed by a screw mechanism to the grape - processing equipment . Malbec is a purple ___MASK47___ ___MASK28___ used in making red wine . The grapes tend to have an inky dark color and robust tannins , and are known as one of the six grapes allowed in the blend of red Bordeaux wine . The French plantations of Malbec are now found primarily in Cahors in South West France . It is increasingly celebrated as an Argentine ___MASK2___ wine and is being grown around the world . Cahors is the ___MASK15___ of the Lot ___MASK13___ in south - western France . Sardinia ( / , Sassarese : " Sardhigna ", Gallurese : " Saldigna ", Catalan : " Sardenya ", Tabarchino : " Sardegna ") is the second largest ___MASK37___ in the Mediterranean ___MASK20___ ( after Sicily and before Cyprus ) and an autonomous region of Italy . It is located in the Western Mediterranean , just south of the French ___MASK37___ of Corsica . The San Joaquin ___MASK10___ is the ___MASK66___ of the Central ___MASK10___ of the U . S . ___MASK68___ of California that lies south of the Sacramento  San Joaquin River Delta and is drained by the San Joaquin River . It comprises seven Northern California counties  all of Kings ___MASK61___ ; a majority of Fresno , Merced , Stanislaus counties ; segments of Madera and Tulare counties  and all of Kern ___MASK61___ , in Southern California . Although a majority of the valley is rural , it does contain urban cities such as Fresno , Bakersfield , Stockton , Modesto , Turlock , Porterville , Visalia , Merced , and Hanford . France , officially the French ___MASK50___ , is a country with ___MASK9___ in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories . The European , or metropolitan , area of France extends from the Mediterranean ___MASK20___ to the English Channel and the North ___MASK20___ , and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean . Overseas France include French Guiana on the South American ___MASK81___ and several island territories in the Atlantic , Pacific and Indian oceans . France spans and had a total population of almost 67 million people as of January 2017 . It is a unitary semi - presidential republic with the capital in Paris , the country ' s largest city and main cultural and commercial centre . Other major urban centres include Marseille , Lyon , Lille , Nice , Toulouse and Bordeaux . A ___MASK2___ wine is a wine made primarily from a single named grape variety , and which typically displays the name of that variety on the wine label . Examples of grape varieties commonly used in ___MASK2___ wines are Cabernet Sauvignon , Chardonnay and Merlot . Wines that display the name of two or more varieties on their label , such as a Chardonnay - Viognier , are blends and not ___MASK2___ wines . The term is frequently misused in place of vine variety ; the term variety refers to the vine or grape while ___MASK2___ refers to the wine produced by a variety . Bordeaux ( Gascon Occitan : "") is a ___MASK21___ ___MASK80___ on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France . French ___MASK85___ is produced all throughout France , in quantities between 50 and 60 million hectolitres per year , or 7  8 billion bottles . France is one of the largest ___MASK85___ producers in the world . French ___MASK85___ traces its ___MASK100___ to the 6th century BC , with many of France ' s regions dating their ___MASK85___ - making ___MASK100___ to Roman times . The wines produced ___MASK3___ from expensive high - end wines sold internationally to more modest wines usually only seen within France such as the Margnat wines were during the post war period . Grenache or Garnacha is one of the most widely planted ___MASK89___ grape varieties in the world . It ripens late , so it needs hot , dry conditions such as those found in Spain , where the grape most likely originated . It is also grown in Sardinia , the south of France , Australia , and California ' s San Joaquin Valley .