Alpine wines from France: Viticulture on Mont Blanc

The French Alps are home to some exciting wine-growing regions. Bugey comes to mind, as do Isère, Diois, Hautes-Alpes and of course Savoy, probably the best-known French Alpine wine region. Savoy stretches from the southern flank of Lake Geneva almost all the way down to Grenoble. In purely visual terms, the region, which is a true paradise for wine lovers thanks to its countless fragmented vineyard plots on a wide variety of soils and numerous indigenous grape varieties, hardly differs from the Alpine valleys of Switzerland.