Tricastin
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The Tricastin is a natural and historic region in the southern Rhône valley of southeastern France comprising the southwestern portion of the Drôme department and the northwestern portion of Vaucluse
View of the Rhône valley and the Tricastin
Mushroom hunter and his dog
Tuber melanosporum, the French black truffle
Grignan-Les Adhemar AOC
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The Grignan-Les Adhemar AOC is the northernmost wine-growing AOC in the southern area of the Rhône wine region of France. The wines are produced in 21 communes in the department of Drôme on the east b
Tricastin
…the site of the Tricastin Nuclear Power Plant situated on the Donzère-Mondragon canal, a tributary of the Rhône, for its Rhône valley AOC wine grape Grignan-Les Adhemar, and for its natural and architectural endowment. The Tricastini were an ancient Gallic tribe that gave its name to the region. Pliny the Elder spoke…
Coteaux du Tricastin
The Tricastin Nuclear Power Plant is located in the wine region where an accident in July 2008 prompted officials to consider a name change for the area.