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AOC/AOP Côtes du Roussillon Villages

Appellation area

The appellation Côtes du Roussillon Villages is reserved to wines produced on 32 villages in the north of the department.

Geology

Cette AOC couvre des vignes s’accrochant à des coteaux pentus ou à des terrasses aux sols schisteux, calcaires et granitiques, le long des rives de l’Agly, du Verdouble et du Maury.

Grapes

Same grapes as the AOC/AOP Cotes du Roussillon (Carignan noir, Grenache noir, Lladoner Pelut, Syrah, Mourvèdre), plus additional quality constraints.

Appellations: Four appellations «communales»

Four terroirs are distinguished by it originality, it specific production and the high expression of its wines.
The four villages are allowed to add it name to the appellation Côtes du Roussillon Villages:

• Latour de France, on soils mainly brown shale,
• Caramany, on soil mainly gneiss,
• Lesquerde, on soil dominated arenas granite,
• Tautavel, on soils mainly red clay on limestone compact.

Key figures

• 1 325 ha
• 38% red wines
• 60 % rosé wines
• 2 % white wines

Average yield

• The yield is limited at 45 hl/ha.

Average production

• 33 313 hl