Five places whose names walked off the map and onto the label — say one aloud and people picture a glass rather than a map pin, and each town has spent centuries earning that.
UNESCO inscribed the city in 2007 as the 'Port of the Moon'. It spent three centuries under English rule after Eleanor of Aquitaine married Henry Plantagenet in 1152, ending at the Battle of Castillon in 1453 — which is why the English still call its red wine claret. About 95,000 hectares of vines surround it — down from over 100,000, after years of pulling up unsold acres.
Founded in 1679 by Simon van der Stel and named 'Van der Stel's bush', it is South Africa's second-oldest town after Cape Town. Abraham Perold's rescued seedlings became Pinotage, and the wine route laid out around the town in 1971 was the first in the country.
The 2014 South Napa earthquake was the largest in the Bay Area since Loma Prieta in 1989. The valley running north from the city holds more than 450 wineries; its reputation was made in 1976, when a Napa Valley chardonnay and cabernet beat the best of France in a blind tasting in Paris.
The Hôtel-Dieu, founded in 1443 by Nicolas Rolin, chancellor to the Duke of Burgundy, has run a charity wine auction almost every year since 1859 — the world's oldest — held on the third Sunday of November, and the barrels are still sold to fund the hospital's successor.
Arabic Sharish became Xerez in old Castilian and 'sherry' in English. The 'de la Frontera' recalls the years when this was the frontier with Moorish Granada. It is the most populous municipality in Cádiz province and one of the acknowledged cradles of flamenco.
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