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Christmas decoration a la France
I was visiting this little festival in the weekend where the Muscat producers celebrated their Muscat Christmas wine 2007. What then was more natural than to display a small icesculpture, shaped as a tree with some bottles of Muscat Wine frozen within..

Muscat is considered the 'original wine grape' - often a sweet wine used as aperitif or to desserts.

The event took place in Perpignan within the huge wine region Languedoc-Rousillon.

Wines in Languedoc-Rousillon
The region is dominated by 740,300 acres of vineyards, three times the combined area of the vineyards in Bordeaux. The Mediterranean climate and plentiful land with soil ranging from rocky sand to thick clay was very suitable for the production of wine, and it is estimated that one in ten bottles of the world's wine was produced in this region during the 20th century. Despite this enormous quantity, the area's significance was often overlooked by scholarly publications and commercial journals, largely due to the fact that very little of the wine being produced was classified under an appellation contrôlée until the 1980s.

Several entrepreneurs like Robert Skalli and James Herrick drastically changed the face of the region, planting more commercially viable grape varieties and pushing for new AOC classifications. While the AOC system has origins in the 15th Century, the Languedoc-Roussillon has some appellations like the Cabardes which have only existed by law since 1999.
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