Idyllic climate and best soils offer in the numerous growing areas, ideal conditions for high-quality wines in France. The large, traditional wine regions of France are Bordeaux and Burgundy. Here are produced many of the largest wines in the world. The third major wine region is the northern Rhône, but due to the low production leads a shadowy existence. Apart from Burgundy, large white wines such as the Coulée de Serrant are also produced on the Loire. While Bordeaux and Burgundy are traditionally celebrated in France as the great wines, one overlooks in their own country the grandiose triumphal march of the southern French wines. The most famous growing areas in France:  Armagnac  12.000 hectare area  Bordeaux  113.000 hectare area  Burgund  40.000 hectare area  Champagne  34.000 hectare area  Cognac  75.000 hectare area  Elsass  14.000 hectare area  Jura  1.500 hectare area  Languedoc-Roussillon  400.000 hectare area  Loire  53.000 hectare area  Lothringen  200 hectare area  Provence  25.000 hectare area  Rhone  50.000 hectare area  Savoyen  1.800 hectare area  SouthWest-France  160.000 hectare area