Blending of wine

Blending of wine. French term: Assemblage.
 The wine-grower is responsible for the style of a wine through the blending of fundamental wines.
This could be: a blend of a single grape variety from a single region but of several vineyards.
This happens in Bourgogne, where only one black grape is allowed in the red wine.

Red Bordeaux is assembled (blended) from wines of a maximum of 6 different grape varieties, usually from a single region.

In Australia its custom to buy wines or grapes from regions which are more than 1000 kilometers apart.
For the Australians the quality of the grape and the result in the wine counts, not the place or origin.
Champagne is the absolute master of blending: usually up to 100 different wines in the assemblage of a single Champagne:
Made from 3 grape varieties, several regions, several parties from several years, if not wood-layered.