An area of 250 km from North to South comprising 418 communes, the vineyards of the Rhône Valley are a world apart, a shifting landscape which winds and unwinds around a fluid axis: the Rhone, king of rivers, carrying silt and a sense of history. The Rhone link connects them all, holding together these contrasting landscapes. From Vienne to Valence, the very narrow configuration of the Rhône Valley offers a moderate continental climate and granite soils to the Northern Crus.