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Floc de Gascogne

Appellation

Floc de Gascogne is an appellation in France across 282 communes. The rules allow rosé and white wine. Regional bedrock: mixed sedimentary rocks.

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Key facts

Type
AOP
Category
Liqueur Wine
Protected since
1996-11-15
Area
483,416 ha registered outline
Extent N–S × E–W
82.13 × 96.04 km
Centre
43.8321° N, 0.1945° E
Grapes
Baroque, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Colombard, Cot, Fer, Folle Blanche, Gros Manseng, Mauzac, Merlot, Petit Manseng, Sauvignon, Sauvignon Gris, Semillon, Tannat, Ugni Blanc
Max yield
85 hl/ha
Min planting density
3,300 vines/ha
Irrigation
Allowed

Where it is

Nearest town
20 km south-west of Condom
Nearest city
67 km north of Tarbes 52,106 people
To the sea
132 km
Same latitude
Prince Edward County (Canada), Eagle Foothills (United States)

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

Terrain

Elevation
38–287 m
Mean elevation
143 m

Measured over the whole outline on 100,141 elevation cells of about 221 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Wines and grape rules

Floc de Gascogne Rosé · Liqueur Wine
Cabernet FrancCabernet SauvignonCotFerMerlotTannat
max 85 hl/ha · min 3,300 vines/ha
Floc de Gascogne White · Liqueur Wine
ColombardGros MansengUgni Blanc
max 85 hl/ha · min 3,300 vines/ha

Bedrock

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

Communes · 282

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Wineries · 60

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Sources

EU register of geographical indications

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