What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Côtes de Provence in France
- Latitude
- 43.0°–44.0° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 13 m to 334 m
- Delimited vineyard land
- 63,997 ha
The delimited vineyard parcels themselves, so the shape is patchy: only land within them may grow the wine. Boundary: INAO parcel delimitation (Licence Ouverte); nearby parcels drawn as one block, with less detail for larger appellations. Country outlines: Natural Earth. Dots on the zone map are the vineyard points used for climate.
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 de Provence must meet.
Blend rules
Côtes de Provence Sainte-Victoire
- ≥ 80% cinsaut / grenache / syrah · Main grape
- ≥ 50% grenache / syrah · Main grape
- – carignan / clairette / mourvèdre / sémillon / ugni blanc / vermentino / cabernet-sauvignon · Allowed
- ≤ 10% clairette / sémillon / ugni blanc · Allowed
- ≤ 20% clairette / sémillon / ugni blanc / vermentino · Allowed
Blend rules
Côtes de Provence Fréjus
- ≥ 80% grenache / mourvèdre / syrah / tibouren · Main grape
- ≥ 20% Tibouren · Main grape
- ≥ 50% grenache / tibouren · Main grape
- – Cinsaut · Allowed
Blend rules
Côtes de Provence Pierrefeu
- ≥ 80% cinsaut / grenache / syrah · Main grape
- – mourvèdre / tibouren / clairette / sémillon / ugni blanc / vermentino · Allowed
- ≤ 10% clairette / ugni blanc / sémillon · Allowed
- ≤ 20% clairette / sémillon / ugni blanc / vermentino · Allowed
Blend rules
Côtes de Provence Notre-Dame des Anges
- ≥ 80% cinsaut / grenache / syrah · Main grape
- ≤ 10% Carignan · Allowed
- ≤ 10% clairette / sémillon / ugni blanc · Allowed
- ≤ 20% clairette / sémillon / ugni blanc / vermentino · Allowed
- ≤ 5% Cabernet Sauvignon · Allowed
Blend rules
Côtes de Provence
- ≥ 70% cinsaut / grenache / mourvèdre / syrah / tibouren · Main grape
- – cabernet-sauvignon / caladoc / carignan / clairette / rousseli / sémillon / ugni blanc / vermentino · Allowed
- ≤ 10% caladoc / rousseli Rs (each) · Allowed
- ≤ 10% clairette / sémillon / ugni blanc · Allowed
- ≤ 20% clairette / sémillon / ugni blanc / vermentino · Allowed
- ≤ 5% variétés d’intérêt à fin d’adaptation (agiorgitiko, calabrese, moschofilero, verdejo, xinomavro, floreal, souvignier gris, sauvignac B) · Others allowed
Blend rules
Côtes de Provence la Londe
- ≥ 80% cinsaut / grenache · Main grape
- – carignan / clairette / mourvèdre / sémillon / syrah / tibouren / ugni blanc / vermentino · Allowed
- ≤ 10% clairette / sémillon / ugni blanc · Allowed
- ≤ 20% clairette / sémillon / ugni blanc / vermentino · Allowed
Blend rules
Côtes de Provence rouge
- ≥ 70% cinsaut / grenache / mourvèdre / syrah / tibouren · Main grape
- – cabernet-sauvignon / caladoc / carignan / clairette / rousseli / sémillon / ugni blanc / vermentino · Allowed
- ≤ 10% caladoc / rousseli Rs (each) · Allowed
- ≤ 10% clairette / sémillon / ugni blanc · Allowed
- ≤ 20% clairette / sémillon / ugni blanc / vermentino · Allowed
- ≤ 5% variétés d’intérêt à fin d’adaptation (agiorgitiko, calabrese, moschofilero, verdejo, xinomavro, floreal, souvignier gris, sauvignac B) · Others allowed
Blend rules
Côtes de Provence blanc
- – clairette / sémillon / ugni blanc / vermentino · Main grape
- ≤ 5% verdejo / floreal / souvignier gris / sauvignac · Others allowed
Blend rules
Côtes de Provence Fréjus rouge
- ≤ 60% grenache / mourvèdre / syrah N (each) · Main grape
- ≥ 50% Syrah · Main grape
; release from 1 November of the year after the harvest.
Blend rules
Côtes de Provence Notre-Dame des Anges rouge
- ≥ 80% cinsaut / grenache / syrah · Main grape
- ≤ 10% Carignan · Allowed
- ≤ 10% clairette / sémillon / ugni blanc · Allowed
- ≤ 20% clairette / sémillon / ugni blanc / vermentino · Allowed
- ≥ 50% grenache / syrah · Main grape
; release from 1 September of the year after the harvest.
Blend rules
Côtes de Provence Pierrefeu rouge
- ≥ 80% grenache / mourvèdre / syrah · Main grape
- ≤ 70% grenache / mourvèdre / syrah N (each) · Main grape
- – cabernet sauvignon / carignan · Allowed
; release from 1 November of the year after the harvest.
Blend rules
Côtes de Provence Sainte-Victoire rouge
- ≥ 80% cinsaut / grenache / syrah · Main grape
- ≥ 50% grenache / syrah · Main grape
- – carignan / clairette / mourvèdre / sémillon / ugni blanc / vermentino / cabernet-sauvignon · Allowed
- ≤ 10% clairette / sémillon / ugni blanc · Allowed
- ≤ 20% clairette / sémillon / ugni blanc / vermentino · Allowed
- ≤ 10% Cabernet Sauvignon · Allowed
; release from 1 September of the year after the harvest.
Blend rules
Côtes de Provence la Londe rouge
- ≥ 80% grenache / mourvèdre / syrah · Main grape
- ≥ 50% grenache / syrah · Main grape
- ≤ 10% Cabernet Sauvignon · Allowed
- – Carignan · Allowed
; release from 1 September of the year after the harvest.
Blend rules
Côtes de Provence la Londe blanc
- ≥ 50% Vermentino · Main grape
- – clairette / sémillon / ugni blanc · Allowed
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
7 varieties · Côtes de Provence Sainte-Victoire, Côtes de Provence Sainte-Victoire, Côtes de Provence Sainte-Victoire rouge
Cabernet Sauvignon, Carignan, Clairette, Mourvèdre, Semillon, Ugni Blanc, Vermentino
8 varieties · 8 wines
Barbaroux, Cabernet Sauvignon, Calitor, Carignan, Clairette, Semillon, Ugni Blanc, Vermentino
2 varieties · Côtes de Provence Pierrefeu, Côtes de Provence la Londe
8 varieties · Côtes de Provence Notre-Dame des Anges, Côtes de Provence Notre-Dame des Anges
Cabernet Sauvignon, Carignan, Clairette, Mourvèdre, Semillon, Tibouren, Ugni Blanc, Vermentino
1 varieties · Côtes de Provence Fréjus
6 varieties · Côtes de Provence Pierrefeu
Clairette, Mourvèdre, Semillon, Tibouren, Ugni Blanc, Vermentino
8 varieties · Côtes de Provence la Londe
Carignan, Clairette, Mourvèdre, Semillon, Syrah, Tibouren, Ugni Blanc, Vermentino
3 varieties · Côtes de Provence la Londe
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
Training
Systems allowed
gobelet; cordon de Royat; taille Guyot simple (cabernet-sauvignon and syrah, base appellation only)
Permitted, with limits
Irrigation
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 19.2 °C, hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,972 growing degree days (Winkler IV).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 167 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 19.2 °C
- Hot · 19–21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,972
- Region IV: 1,944–2,221 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 394 mm
- Of 756 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 176 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 257 m; Vineyard point 2, 252 m; Vineyard point 3, 251 m; Vineyard point 4, 4 m; Vineyard point 5, 70 m), moved to each point's height from the model's terrain. Indices that need daily data are not captured yet. How the climate figures are made.
Lower confidence:Monthly reanalysis in moderately complex terrain; not yet checked against a weather station.
Closest climates in the database
Picked by the data, not by hand: the profiles nearest on season warmth (counted twice), degree days, rain, ripening-month nights and day–night range. Neighbours within 30 km are left out, as they share the same weather.
1. EmpordàVery similarCompared with Côtes de Provence: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. BiscoitosVery similarCompared with Côtes de Provence: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. ΜεσενικόλαVery similarCompared with Côtes de Provence: same season warmth, similar rain.
Growing-season temperature
Growing degree days
Growing-season rain
03 · Year by year
35 vintages
Each column is one growing season: heat above or below the 1991–2020 average, and rain at harvest. Pick a year for the details.
Warmer than averageCooler than averageHarvest rain (Sep–Oct)Average harvest rain, 176 mm
2025
- Growing-season temp.
- Growing degree days
- Harvest rain
- Growing-season rain
- September nights
- Hot days and frosts
Seasons are labelled by harvest year (April–October). Year-to-year changes from ERA5-Land; tested against station records in Alto Adige (r = 0.94 for season temperature at Bolzano). Rain varies more locally, so treat single-season rain with some caution. Vintage ratings, harvest dates and frost or hail events have places in the data model but are not loaded yet.
04 · Where the numbers come from
Sources
- A geospatial inventory of regulatory information for wine protected designations of origin in Europe · Candiago et al., Scientific Data 9, 394 (2022); Eurac Research · CC0
- Quality wines in Italy and France: a dataset of PDO specifications · figshare 25393261 · CC BY 4.0
- ERA5-Land monthly averaged data (reanalysis-era5-land-monthly-means) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), Climate Data Store · CC BY 4.0 (Copernicus licence)
- OpenStreetMap vineyard areas (landuse=vineyard), from Geofabrik country extracts · OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL 1.0
- Copernicus DEM GLO-90 (AWS open data tiles) · European Space Agency / Copernicus · Copernicus DEM licence
- Cahier des charges: Côtes de Provence (Cahier des charges de l'appellation d'origine protégée Côtes de Provence homologué par arrêté du 27 avril 2026 (AGRT2606049A) - BO n°19 du 7 mai 2026) · Ministère de l'Agriculture (Bulletin officiel), as linked by INAO · Official act
- Délimitation parcellaire des AOC viticoles de l'INAO · Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité (INAO), via data.gouv.fr · Licence Ouverte / Open Licence (Etalab)
- Climate profiles calculated by Vinous: method
Still to check (3)
- Generated from EU reference data: check against the current product specification.
- From the specification: Register names are the base appellation and five dénominations géographiques complémentaires (Sainte-Victoire is 'Cru Sainte-Victoire' in the text); products are split by colour because rules differ. Grape limits are mostly on the holding's plantings; blend rules add principal varieties at least 50% (70% for Fréjus rosé), at least two varieties, adaptation varieties max 10%. No minimum density is given: each vine has at most 2.5 m². Sugar limits shown are for wines up to 13/14% natural alcohol (4 g/l above); 'ageing_starts' holds the end of compulsory élevage. Irrigated parcels: 7 t/ha (6.5 t/ha for the named areas).
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.