Banyuls (wine)
See also: Banyuls
The banyuls (AOC) (of the name of the town of Banyuls-sur-Mer) is a sweet aperitif wine resulting from old vines cultivated in terraces on the sloping slopes of the the Pyrenees which overhang the the Mediterranean. Its surface of production is limited to the four communes of the Vermilion Côte.
Geography
Located in France in the department of the the Eastern Pyrenees in area Languedoc-Roussillon between Sea and Mountain and between the Spain and the plain of the Roussillon
Soil
The Vigne of banyuls pushes on the Schiste, and its roots must cut through a path in a ground very low in ground. The principal type of vine used is the black Grenache: 50% minimum for name banyuls , 75% for the banyuls great wine . Other principal type of vines: gray Grenache and white Grenache, Macabeu, malvoisy of Roussillon, white Muscatel with small grains and Muscatel of Alexandria. Complementary type of vines: Carignan, Cinsault, Syrah. The output should not exceed 30 hl/ha.
Like the other sweet aperitif wines, the banyuls is carried out by mutage: one adds alcohol on the Moût to stop fermentation, which makes it possible to preserve part of the natural sugar of the Raisin. Then, the wines are preserved more the possible for a long time in cellar, in barrels, or outside, in bottles of glass exposed to the sun. This breeding must be at least ten months for the banyuls, and thirty months for the banyuls great wine.
On the same soil the red or rosy wines of Collioure are also produced.
The other sweet aperitif wines produced in the the Eastern Pyrenees are the maury, the Rivesaltes and the Muscat of Rivesaltes.
See too
- Wine of Languedoc and the Roussillon
External bonds
- List of the cellars of Banyuls
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