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An AOC Palette wine from Château Simone. Palette (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a small French wine AOC in the Provence region of southern France, near Aix-en-Provence. The AOC was established in 1948. The grapes for this AOC are grown in Aix-en-Provence, Meyreuil, and Le Tholonet. The hamlet of Palette, which gives its name to the AOC, is ...
The Languedoc-Roussillon region shares many terrain and climate characteristics with the neighboring regions of Southern Rhône and Provence.The region stretches 150 miles (240 km) from the Banyuls AOC at the Spanish border and Pyrenees in the west, along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea to the river Rhône and Provence in the east. [2]
South West France: 1937: Côtes du Forez: Loire: 2000: Côtes de la Malepere: Languedoc: 2007: Côtes de Millau: South West France: 2011: upgraded to AOC (AOP) from AOVDQS as disappear as label in 2011 Côtes de Montravel: South West France: 1937: Côtes de Provence: Provence: 1977: Côtes de Toul: Eastern France: 1998: Côtes du Jura: Jura ...
The Languedoc-Roussillon region has adopted a marque to help market its products, in particular, but not limited to, wine. The Sud de France (Southern France) marque was adopted in 2006 [30] to help customers abroad not familiar with the Appellation system to recognise those wines that originated in the L-R area, [31] but the marque is also ...
In the west, where the soil is more sandy, the wines are lighter; in the south, where the soil is more gravelly, the proportion of Merlot is lower, and the wines tend more towards the flavors of the Médoc. [5] The wine has been described as 'velvety' [6] or 'unctuous'. [2] The characteristic fruit flavor is plum, sometimes tending towards prune.
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Most of the Fronton area wines (about 85%) are red wines made primarily of the Fronton's exclusive grape variety Négrette (minimum 50% in the blend). The Négrette (sometimes known as Pinot St. George when grown in the United States) gives the wine fruity and delicate features, providing a powerful red wine, dark and tannic, with aromas of violet and licorice.
The wine is then fermented in small oak barrels, further adding to the cost. Even with half bottles of the First Growths priced at several hundred dollars, these wines still have difficulties turning a profit, and in the mid 20th century, a string of bad vintages drove many growers in the region out of business. [6]