Coteaux-de-die

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An overview of the individual names of the Rhône wine-growing region. Zoom A shows the southern appellations in Avignon and zoom B, the near Lyon is located wine-growing areas. The appellation Coteaux de Die is in the zoom B as Clairette de Die shown

Coteaux-de-die is an appellation of origin for white wine in the middle section of the large wine-growing region of the Rhône . The vineyards are located in 31 municipalities east of Crest in the immediate vicinity of the eponymous city of Die on the Drôme tributary on the orographic right-hand side of the Rhone . Some vineyards reach as far as the Vercors mountain range . Since March 26, 1993, the wine-growing region has had the status of an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (also known as AOC for short). The growing area is congruent with the appellations Clairette de Die and Crémant de Die .

In 1997, 384 hectoliters of wine were produced on 7 hectares of vineyards . The appellation is too young to see if it will be adopted by winemakers and customers. However, the experience so far is not encouraging.

Viticulture was already practiced in the region in Roman times. This is testified by the historian Pliny the Elder , who described the region's wine in 77 in his work Naturalis historia .

The only permitted grape variety is Clairette Blanche .

The basic yield, i.e. the harvest restriction, is a moderate 50 hectoliters / hectare; an amount that, depending on the age group, can be up to max. 60 hectoliters / hectare can be corrected upwards.

The minimum sugar content of the must for the base wine must be at least 153 g / l. If this value is not reached in bad years, a chaptalization can be approved.

Approved municipalities

Aix-en-Diois , Aouste-sur-Sye , Aubenasson , Aurel , Barsac , Barnave , Beaufort-sur-Gervanne , Châtillon-en-Diois , Die , Espenel , Laval-d'Aix , Luc-en-Diois , Menglon , Mirabel-et-Blacons , Molières-Glandaz , Montclar-sur-Gervanne , Montlaur-en-Diois , Montmaur-en-Diois , Piégros-la-Clastre , Ponet-et-Saint-Auban , Pontaix , Poyols , Recoubeau-Jansac , Saillans , Saint-Benoit-en-Diois , Saint-Roman , Saint-Sauveur-en-Diois , Sainte-Croix , Suze-sur-Crest , Vercheny and Véronne .

literature

  • Hubrecht Duijker: The best wines - Rhône and southern France . Albert Müller Verlag, Zurich, Stuttgart, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-275-00891-9 .
  • Pierre Galet : Cépages et Vignobles de France . 1st edition. Lavoisier Publishing House, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-7430-0585-8 .
  • Jancis Robinson : The Oxford Wine Lexicon . Hallwag, Gräfe and Unzer, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-8338-0691-9 .
  • Benoît France (Editor): Grand Atlas des Vignobles de France . Éditions SOLAR publishing house, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-263-03242-8 .
  • John Livingstone-Learmonth: The wines of the Northern Rhône . University of California Press, Ltd., 2005, ISBN 978-0-520-24433-7 .