AOC COTES DU ROUSSILLON ET VILLAGE

AOC COTES 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

AOC COTES DU ROUSSILLON VILLAGE
APPELLATION AREA
The appellation Côtes du Roussillon Villages is reserved to wines produced on 32 villages in the north of the department.

GEOLOGY
This AOC covers vineyards clinging to steep hillsides or terraces soil schist, limestone and granite, along the banks of the Agly, the Verdouble and Maury.

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

APPELLATIONS
Four appellations «communales» 
Four terroirs are distinguished by their originality, their specific production and the high expression of their 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 
1325 ha 

Yields 
The yield is limited at 45 hl/ha
Average production 2007 
33 313 hl 

Source CIVR