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Côtes Catalanes

4Wines in the rules

What is made here

Wine colours

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

Where it is

Côtes Catalanes in France

The boundary for Côtes Catalanes 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 Côtes Catalanes must meet.

4 wines in the rules, all colours.
WineMax wine
hl/ha		Grape sugar
min. g/l		Actual alc.
min. %		Sugar
max. g/l
Côtes Catalanes rouge 90–10.5–
Côtes Catalanes rosé 90–10.5–
Côtes Catalanes blanc 90–10.5–
Côtes Catalanes rancio 902381412

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

  1. eAmbrosia, the EU register of geographical indications (wine) · European Commission · Commission reuse policy
  2. Code rural et de la pêche maritime, Articles L641-5 to L641-11 (AOC, AOP, IGP) · République française · Official act
  3. Cahier des charges: Côtes Catalanes (Cahier des charges modifié de l'IGP Côtes catalanes - BO n°21 du 21 mai 2020) · 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: Varieties include Alicante Henri Bouschet N, Alphonse Lavallée N, Altesse B and Alvarinho B, without shares; 'rancio' wines (red or white still wines with oxidative ageing) only from 11 listed varieties such as Carignan, Grenache and Macabeu. Other wines given oxidative ageing are aged until and released from 1 March after the harvest. The smaller geographical unit 'Pyrénées Orientales', variety names and 'primeur'/'nouveau' may be added.
  • National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.