Moulin-à-Vent is a French
red wine
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of controlled designation of origin produced on the border between the
Rhône
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and
Saône-et-Loire
Saône-et-Loire (; Arpitan: ''Sona-et-Lêre'') is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in France. It is named after the rivers Saône and Loire, between which it lies, in the country's central-eastern part.
Saône-et-Loire is B ...
departments.
The appellation covers part of the towns of Chénas and Romanèche-Thorins, in the
Beaujolais
Beaujolais ( , ) is a French ''Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée'' (AOC) wine in the Burgundy wine, Burgundy region. Beaujolais wines are generally made of the Gamay grape, which has a thin skin and is low in grape tannins, tannin, but like most ...
vineyards. It is one of the 10
crus, which are from north to south: le Saint-Amour, le Juliénas, le Chénas, le Moulin-à-Vent, le Fleurie, le Chiroubles, le Morgon, le Régnié, le Brouilly and le Côte-de-Brouilly.
This wine was sold before 1936 under the name of "Romanèche-Thorins" which was once considered a Beaujolais cru.
[Hubert Duyker, ''Grands vins de Bourgogne'', « Moulin-à-Vent », .] The name is changed to "windmill"
Olivier Orban
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* Olivier (surname), a list of people
* Château Olivier, a Bordeaux winery
*Olivier, Louisiana, a rural popula ...
et Jean-Pierre de Monza, ''L'atlas des vins de France'', . when it is recognized by the National Institute of Origin and Quality (INAO) as a controlled designation of origin (AOC) by the decree of September 11, 1936.
[, publié au '' JORF'' du 4 octobre 1936, page 10517.]
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