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Côtes du Rhône

Appellation

Côtes du Rhône is an appellation in France, covering 132,275.2 ha across 167 communes. The rules allow red, rosé and white wine. Regional bedrock: carbonate sedimentary rocks.

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Key facts

Type
AOC
Category
Vin primeur, Vin tranquille
Protected since
1973-09-18
Area
132,275.2 ha
Separate plots
53
Extent N–S × E–W
186.07 × 56.85 km
Centre
44.1419° N, 4.5766° E
Grapes
Bourboulenc, Brun Argenté, Caladoc, Carignan, Cinsaut, Clairette, Clairette Rose, Counoise, Couston, Grenache Blanc, Grenache Gris, Grenache, Marsanne, Marselan, Mourvèdre, Muscardin, Piquepoul Blanc, Piquepoul Noir, Roussanne, Syrah, Terret Noir, Ugni Blanc, Viognier
Max yield
60 hl/ha
INAO office
Avignon

Where it is

Nearest town
4.1 km south-west of Bagnols-sur-Cèze
Nearest city
19 km west of Orange 30,530 people
To the sea
63 km
Rivers nearby
Rhône (12 km)
Same latitude
Prince Edward County (Canada), Lower Long Tom (United States)

Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.

Terrain

Elevation
10–704 m
Mean elevation
165 m

Measured over the whole outline on 22,717 elevation cells of about 217 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles).

Wines and grape rules

Côtes du Rhône Red
GrenacheMourvèdreSyrah
max 60 hl/ha
Côtes du Rhône Primeur/Nouveau Red
GrenacheMourvèdreSyrah
max 60 hl/ha
Côtes du Rhône Rosé
GrenacheMourvèdreSyrah
max 60 hl/ha
Côtes du Rhône Primeur/Nouveau Rosé
GrenacheMourvèdreSyrah
max 60 hl/ha
Côtes du Rhône White
BourboulencClairetteGrenache BlancMarsanneRoussanneViognier
max 60 hl/ha

Vintages: Southern Rhône

405
406
507
208
409
510
311
412
313
214
415
516
317
318
519
420
321
422
423
324

Atlas editorial scores: a consensus of widely published vintage reports, not one critic's view. Scores for 2023 and 2024 are early and can change as the wines develop. Scale 1 to 5.

Bedrock

Regional bedrock from the GLiM global lithological map (Hartmann and Moosdorf 2012), not a soil survey.

Communes · 167

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Wineries · 39

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Sources

EU register of geographical indications · INAO, Délimitation parcellaire des AOC viticoles (Licence Ouverte 2.0)

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