Southwest France Tours, Travel & ActivitiesSouthwest France is a wine region in France covering several wine-producing areas situated respectively inland from, and south of, the wine region of Bordeaux. These areas, which have a total of 16,000 hectares (40,000 acres) of vineyards, consist of several discontinuous wine 'islands' throughout the Aquitaine region, and more or less to the west of the Midi-Pyrénées region.