AOC Côtes du Roussillon

Appellation area

The appellation Cotes du Roussillon covers 118 villages of the department of Pyrénées Orientales. It extends on four big areas: the vallée de l’Agly et les Fenouillèdes (at the north); the vallée de la Têt and the Aspres (at the center); the vallée du Tech and the Albères (at the south); the band shoreline along the Mediterranean Sea (at the east).

Geology

It is composed of soils and sub-soils very diverse (limestone, clay and limestone, shale, gneiss, granite, alluvial terraces, etc.)

Grapes

• Red and rosé wines : Carignan noir, Grenache noir, Lladoner Pelut, Cinsault, Syrah, Mourvèdre, Macabeu
• White wines : Grenache blanc, Macabeu, Tourbat ou Malvoisie du Roussillon, Roussanne, Marsanne, Vermentino

Key figures

• 5 865 ha
• 38% red wines
• 60 % rosés wines
• 2 % white wines

Yields

• The yield is limited at 45 hl/ha
• Average yield: 33.41 hl/ha

Average production

196,306 hl

Source CIVR