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Côtes du Rhône Villages Valréas

Sub-zone

Côtes du Rhône Villages Valréas is a named sub-zone of Côtes du Rhône Villages in France, covering 4,951 ha in Valreas. That is 11.4% of the Côtes du Rhône Villages appellation area. The rules allow red, rosé and white wine. Regional bedrock: mixed sedimentary rocks. It lies around the town of Valréas and 23 km south-east of Montélimar.

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Key facts

Type
Dénomination géographique complémentaire
Within
Côtes du Rhône Villages
Category
Vin tranquille
Area
4,951 ha
Extent N–S × E–W
11.6 × 11.9 km
Centre
44.4215° N, 4.9739° E

Where it is

Nearest town
around the town of Valréas
Nearest city
23 km south-east of Montélimar 35,637 people
To the sea
96 km

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

Terrain

Elevation
166–530 m
Mean elevation
283 m
Mean slope
5.3° (9 %)
Steepest tenth
above 14°
Faces
west

Measured over the whole outline on 65,188 elevation cells of about 27 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles).

Vintages: Southern Rhône

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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 · 1

Sources

INAO, Délimitation parcellaire des AOC viticoles (Licence Ouverte 2.0)

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