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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 boundary of the eastern Languedoc with the Southern Rhône Valley wine region was moved slightly in 2004, with the result that Costières de Nîmes AOC is now a Rhône appellation rather than a Languedoc one. In that year, INAO moved the responsibility for oversight of this appellation's wine to the regional committee of the Rhône valley. [14]
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.
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 ...
After the Crusades, many returning Knights Hospitaller established themselves in the Libourne/Pomerol area building hospitals and hostels. The Pomerol region, and its northern border, the Barbanne river was historically considered the frontier boundary between the north where people spoke the Langues d'oïl and the south where they spoke the Langue d'oc. [7]
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