The Amazon Rainforest is a moist broad leaf forest that covers nearly the entire Amazon river basin which makes it the single largest stretch of rainforest in the world, accounting for more than half of the entire natural rainforest on the earth.n short, this is an OLD rainforest, much of which is around 55 million years old. It appeared just when the Atlantic Ocean had widened enough to provide a warm, moist climate to the Amazon basin, just the right conditions for a tropical rainforest.
Bordeaux is the worldâs biggest source of top quality wines. But a Bordeaux wine can cost anything from a few dollars or euros to several thousand per bottle. In Bordeaux you can find the ultimate luxuries in the wine world but also some very good value wines. The â1855 classificationâ is very important for the business of Bordeaux wine.
For another wine grape that is also known as Auvernat blanc and shares several other synonyms with Chardonnay, see Savagnin. Chardonnay (pronounced: [ÊaÊ.dÉ.nÉ]) is a green-skinned grape variety used in the production of white wine. The variety originated in the Burgundy wine region of eastern France, but is now grown wherever wine is produced, from England to New Zealand. For new and developing wine regions, growing Chardonnay is seen as a rite of passage and an easy entry into the international wine market.