Cotes du Marmandais
Côtes du Marmandais is a wine-growing region in the south of France in the Sud-Ouest wine-growing region in the north-west of the Agenais .
location
The appellation, named after the small town of Marmande , is located in the north of the wine-growing region of this region. The vineyards cover around 1,700 hectares south of the Bergerac appellation and have had the status of an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée since April 2, 1990 . The vineyards are on both sides of the Garonne and in direct extension of the Bordeaux appellations Entre deux mers and Graves .
Communities
The vineyards are located in 27 municipalities of the Lot-et-Garonne department : Beaupuy , Bouglon , Cambes , Caubon-Saint-Sauveur , Castelnau-sur-Gupie , Cocumont , Escassefort , Guérin , Lachapelle , Lagupie , Lévignac-de-Guyenne , Marcellus , Marmande , Mauvezin-sur-Gupie , Meilhan-sur-Garonne , Monteton , Montpouillan , Peyrière , Romestaing , Saint-Avit , Saint-Géraud , Saint-Martin-Petit , Saint-Sauveur-de-Meilhan , Sainte-Bazeille , Samazan , Seyches and Virazeil .
Wines
There are mainly reds and rosés produced.
- The red wine and the rosé are blended from a maximum of 75% of the main grape varieties Cabernet Franc , Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot and a maximum of 50% of the secondary grape varieties Abouriou , Malbec , Fer Servadou , Gamay and Syrah .
- The white wine , which is always dry, is blended from the main grape variety Sauvignon Blanc (max. 70%) and the secondary grape varieties Muscadelle , Sémillon and Ugni Blanc .
The yield restrictions are 55 hectoliters / hectare for the red and rosé wines and 66 hectoliters / hectare for the white wines. The must weight for red wines must be at least 163 g / l. For rosé and white wines, this limit is a low 153 g / l.
literature
- Jancis Robinson : The Oxford Wine Lexicon . Gräfe and Unzer Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7742-0914-6 .
- Pierre Galet : Cépages et Vignobles de France . Lavoisier Publishing House, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-7430-0585-8 .
- Benoît France: Grand Atlas des Vignobles de France . Éditions SOLAR publishing house, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-263-03242-8 .