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Some vineyards have adopted the youngest batch of AOC classifications developed in the late 1990s, while other vineyards eschew designated blends entirely and are instead shifting toward bottling single varietal wines, a practice increasingly demanded by consumers in the large New World wine market. [6] Languedoc-Roussillon Region
Clairette de Languedoc; Coteaux du Languedoc – Red wine, White wine, Rosé; Coteaux du Languedoc Pic Saint Loup; Costières de Nîmes – Red wine. According to some sources, this appellation is now considered a part of Rhône rather than Languedoc. Faugères – Red wine; Muscat de Frontignan – White wine, Fortified wine; Muscat de Lunel ...
The AOC was created in 1985, covers 13,500 hectares (33,000 acres) of vineyards and produces an average of 554,000 hectoliters of wine per year, corresponding to 74 million bottles. [ 1 ] Due to its size and geography, Corbières encompasses an enormous variety of soil types and microclimates .
Languedoc-Roussillon: 1949: Clairette de Die: Rhône: 1993: Clairette du Languedoc: Languedoc-Roussillon: 1948: Original decree of 28 September 1948 updated 12 April 1965, 30 August 1972, and 15 November 1983 Clos des Lambrays: Burgundy: 1981: Originally a Premier Cru vineyard in Morey-Saint-Denis Clos de la Roche: Burgundy: 1936: Clos de Tart ...
Faugères (French pronunciation: ⓘ; also known as Coteaux-du-Languedoc Faugères) is an Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) in the Languedoc-Roussillon wine region in France and is named after the town of Faugères, which lies 30 km north of Béziers, in the foothills of the Massif Central, in the département of Hérault.
This category covers the Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) wines of the Languedoc-Roussillon wine region of France. Pages in category "Languedoc-Roussillon wine AOCs" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
Terrasses du Larzac (French pronunciation: [teʁas dy laʁzak]) is an Appellation d’origine contrôlée (AOC) within the Côteaux du Languedoc in Southern France ( French Occitania) created in 2005 for red wines made from Syrah, Grenache and Mourvèdre grapes, with the acceptable additions of Cinsaut and Carignan, and grown in some of the highest vineyards of the Côteaux du Languedoc on the ...
Wines from the region have been produced for over two millennia and were consumed by the Greeks in pre-Roman times, making it one of the oldest vineyards in Europe.The area was settled by veterans of Julius Caesar's campaigns in Egypt, and bottles of Costières de Nîmes bear the symbol of the Roman settlement at Nîmes, a crocodile chained to a palm tree.