Coteaux de l'Ain

What is made here

Wine colours

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

Where it is

Coteaux de l'Ain in France

The boundary for Coteaux de l'Ain 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 Coteaux de l'Ain must meet.

4 wines in the rules, all colours.
Wine	Max wine hl/ha	Actual alc. min. %
Coteaux de l'Ain rouge	100	8.5
Coteaux de l'Ain rosé	100	8.5
Coteaux de l'Ain blanc	100	8.5
Coteaux de l'Ain mousseux de qualité	100	–

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: Coteaux de l'Ain (Cahier des charges de l'indication géographique protégée Coteaux de l'Ain - B.O.n°50 du 14 décembre 2017) · 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: 68 varieties allowed, starting Aligoté B, Altesse B, Arvine B, Auxerrois B. Quality sparkling wines (mousseux de qualité) may be red, rosé or white. Red wines must have malic acid at or below 0.4 g/l at packaging. Mentions: grape names, primeur/nouveau (still wines), and smaller units Pays de Gex, Revermont, Val de Saône, Valromey.
National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.