Ariège · Vinous

What is made here

Wine colours

Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.

Where it is

Ariège in France

The boundary for Ariège is not on Vinous yet. It is added by the geography step of the data pipeline.

Showing every colour The colour filter changes the rules and grapes. Climate, vintages and soils describe the vineyards, so they stay the same.

01 · What the law says

The rules

Limits on grapes, yields, ripeness and ageing that every wine labelled Ariège must meet.

4 wines in the rules, all colours.
Wine	Max wine hl/ha	Actual alc. min. %
Ariège rouge	65	10.5
Ariège rosé	65	10
Ariège blanc	65	10
Ariège vin de raisins surmûris blanc	35	–

From the official production rules (cahier des charges). Hover a figure to see the clause it comes from. A dash means the rules set no figure, or it is not captured yet.

02 · Where the numbers come from

Sources

eAmbrosia, the EU register of geographical indications (wine) · European Commission · Commission reuse policy
Code rural et de la pêche maritime, Articles L641-5 to L641-11 (AOC, AOP, IGP) · République française · Official act
Cahier des charges: Ariège (Cahier des charges relatifs aux indications géographiques protégées (en lien, arrêté d’homologation paru au JORF) : Ariège, Coteaux d’Enserune, Coteaux de Narbo) · Ministère de l'Agriculture (Bulletin officiel), as linked by INAO · Official act

Still to check (3)

Boundary not captured yet (PGIs are not in the Eurac boundary data).
From the specification: White wines come from 15 listed varieties (arrufiac B, camaralet de lasseube B, chardonnay B…), red and rosé from 11 (cabernet franc N, cabernet sauvignon N, cot N…). Red wines other than primeur/nouveau must have completed malolactic fermentation; maximum volatile acidity and sulphur dioxide limits are set. Smaller geographical units 'Coteaux de la Lèze' and 'Coteaux du Plantaurel' may be added.
National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.