Welcome to the October event for The French Winophiles, a wine-swilling, food-loving group coordinated by Christy of Confessions of a Culinary Diva . We start with the Regions first and then move to the Appellations. The proposed schedule, based somewhat on the seasons is as follows: June 20 - Loire Valley (click for my post: here ) July 18 - Provence or Corsica (click for my post: here ) August 15 - Southwest (click for my post: here ) September 19 - Languedoc-Roussillon (click for my post: here ) October 17 - Côtes du Rhône November 21 - Bordeaux December 19 - Champagne January 16 - Burgundy February 20 - Alsace To Côtes du Rhône... Côtes du Rhône literally means 'hills of the Rhône', the river that runs through this region, stretching over 100 miles from Vienne to Avignon, with over 200,000 planted acres. You can see it on the map above, in blue, above Côte d'Azur. Divided into two main sections, Syrah is the dom...