Definition: Wine-growing region

Zone A comprises Germany, excluding Baden, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Zone B includes Baden in Germany, France, the wine-growing regions of Alsace, Champagne, Lorraine, Jura, Savoie and the lower Loire Valley.

Zone C, subdivided into five zones, includes all other wine-growing regions in Southern Europe: the upper Loire Valley, Burgundy, Beaujolais, South-West and South-East France, Spain, Portugal and Greece.

These regulations set out specific oenological practices within each zone, such as the authorisation and extent of chaptalisation depending on the natural alcohol content of the wine.