{"id":18019,"date":"2022-10-21T11:19:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T15:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wine365.com\/?p=18019"},"modified":"2022-10-20T11:34:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T15:34:40","slug":"qa-mountain-range-alsace-france-protects-rain-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wine365.com\/stage\/qa-mountain-range-alsace-france-protects-rain-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A: What is the mountain range in Alsace, France that protects this winegrowing region from rain and clouds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Q. What is the mountain range in Alsace, France that protects this winegrowing region from rain and clouds?<\/p>\n<p>A. The Vosges Mountains in Alsace, France make it one of the sunniest areas in all of France. Combined with the region&#8217;s northern latitude which results in a long growing season and allows grapes to reach full maturity, Alsace has perfect weather for winegrowing.<\/p>\n<p><em>The other answers are wrong because&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Alps are partly in France, but they&#8217;re south of Alsace and the Vosges; and hopefully you didn&#8217;t answer either the Andes or the Appalachian Mountains, otherwise we&#8217;d say you&#8217;d had a bit too much Riesling.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Mountains play an important part in many wine regions. 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What is the mountain range in Alsace, France that protects this winegrowing region from rain and clouds? A. The Vosges Mountains in Alsace, France make it one of the sunniest areas in all of France. Combined with the region&#8217;s northern latitude which results in a long growing season and allows grapes to reach full<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[478],"tags":[477],"class_list":{"0":"post-18019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-trivia","7":"tag-newsletter-qas"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Q&amp;A: What is the mountain range in Alsace, France that protects this winegrowing region from rain and clouds? - Wine 365<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Q&amp;A: What is the mountain range in Alsace, France that protects this winegrowing region from rain and clouds? - Wine 365\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Q. 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