Tags: Wine Region.
South West France or in French Sud-Ouest is a wine region in France covering several wine-producing areas situated respectively inland from and south of the wine region of Bordeaux. These areas which have a total of 16000 hectares (40000 acres) of vineyards consist of several discontinuous wine islands throughout the Aquitaine region (where Bordeaux region itself is situated) and more or less to the west of the Midi-Pyrénées region.