Coasts of Ventoux

Coasts of Ventoux , is a Appellation of controlled origin in the category of the " Wines and other drinks fermentées". The decree of December 29th, 1951 defines the conditions of production of the V.D.Q.S. Côtes of Ventoux. Recognition in A.O.C. dated July 27th, 1973. The decree was modified in 1980 and 1994. The produced wines are: white, rosy, red, early product rosy white, early product red red rose early product.

Indentity card of name

Name: Coasts of Ventoux
Color: red wine 76%, rosy wine 20% and 4% of wines white
Decree of name: July 27th, 1973
red and rosy authorized Type of vines:

principal Type of vines: grenache black, syrah, cinsault, mourvèdre and carignan
secondary Type of vines: picpoul black, counoise, pale, bourboulenc, grenache white, roussanne, ugni white, white Pascal

white authorized Type of vines:

principal Type of vines: pale, bourboulenc, grenache white
secondary Type of vines: ugni white, roussanne, picpoul and white Pascal

Standard of grounds: Mediterranean red grounds, of the falls and the old alluvia.
Surface of the vineyard: 7300 ha
authorized Outputs: 50 hl/ha
Production: 294.080 hl in 2006

80% of the production are vinified in cooperative wine caves, 17% in particular cellars and 3% by the vinificators.

Many cooperative wine caves ( according to the sources): enter 14 and 16 - particular Cellars: between 101 and 131

Distribution (in volume for 2005): GD (33%), Export (17%), Direct sales (17%), Wholesaler (15%), Caviste (9%) and CHR (9%)

Principal countries with export (in volume for 2005): Belgium and Luxembourg (22%), the United States (15%), Canada (13%).

Geography

In the east of the valley of the Rhone, in the Vaucluse, sheltered Mistral. There are 3 geographical areas: the basin of Malaucène in north, piémonts of the Mount Ventoux in the East of Carpentras and the north of Calavon until Apt. The climate is of Mediterranean type, moderate in limit of the surface by the presence of the solid masses of the Ventoux Mount and the Mounts of Vaucluse.

Grounds

The vineyard is located in major part on sediments deposited by the seas of the tertiary era at the base of the calcareous solid mass of Ventoux. The grounds are especially Mediterranean red grounds, falls and old alluvia.

List of the 51 communes

Apt, Aubignan, Barroux, Beaucet, Beaumettes, Beaumont-of-Ventoux, Bédoin, Blauvac, Bonnieux, Cabrières-in Avignon, Caromb, Carpentras, Caseneuve, Crestet, Crillon-the-brave man, Entrechaux, Flassan, Fountain-of-Vaucluse, Gargas, Gignac, Gordes, Goult, Joucas, Lagnes, Lioux, Loriol-of-Comtat, Malaucene, Malemort-of-Comtat, Maubec, Mazan, Méthamis, Modena, Mormoiron, Walls, Pernes-the-fountains, Robion, Castling-on-Pernes, Roussillon, Rustrel, Saignon, Saint-Didier, Saint-Hippolyte-the-Graveyron, Saint-Martin-of-Castillon, Saint-Pantaléon, Saint-Pierre-of-Vassols, Saint-Saturnin-the-Apt, Saumane-of-Vaucluse, Venasque, Come, Villars, City-on-Auzon,

History

The first archaeological traces of the wines produced on the soil of coast-of-ventoux were discovered close to Carpentras and Apt. The first site, located at Mazan, the locality Jonquier, made it possible to update the workshop of a potter where the first known wine Amphores in France were manufactured. It was dated by Dominique Carru from Ier century before our era.

The second, on the territory of the commune of Saignon, is the site of Tourettes excavated again by Dominique Carru. Its team released the ruins of a Gallo-Roman villa primarily devoted to the production of oil and wine. She was destroyed by a barbarian horde about the year 275 of our era.

The first hard copies of the vineyards of Piedmont of the Ventoux date from IXe century. It was in 875 that Charles, king of Provence-Viennese, gave to Jean, bishop of Carpentras, the Unango villa, today Château Unang, on the commune of Malemort-of-Comtat, then the Cartulaire d' Apt, teaches us that in 890, Alexandria lady, sold its vineyard of Keyboards between Apt and Rustrel.

The identity of the first vine growers of Ventoux is known to us by an act deposited with the Secret Archives of the Vatican mentioning entry with Carpentras, in 1376, of Guillaume III Roger of Beaufort, the new vice-chancellor of the Comtat Venaissin. For the reunions which followed, Jean Guibanne provides approximately 460 liters of red wine, and his fellow-member Jean Guisinelle, 385 liters of white wine.

The States of Comtat Venaissin make draw up in 1414 their first land register. The communes which have the most vines are: Carpentras, Aubignan, Bédoin, It Castling-on-Pernes, City-on-Auzon and Beaucet.

The marquis de Rochegude, owner of a vineyard with Bédoin, proceeds to the first setting out of bottle in 1779. This eight years old wine is intended for the Royal Navy of Toulon and the members of Parliament of Grenoble and Aix-en-Provence.

André Julien publishes in 1832 its famous work “Topography of all the known vineyards”. At the heading “liqueur wines”, it classifies just behind the “wine of straw” of the Hermitage, the muscatel of Beaumes-of-Venice and Grenache de Mazan. This one will become a “wine of court” under the reign of Louis-Philippe.

In 1900, for the first time appears name “Coasts of Ventoux”. This baptism takes place for… a wedding banquet. On the menu is penmanship “wines of the Coasts of Ventoux and the Notches”. These wines all are vintage and gone back to 1870,1890 and 1895, that is to say old wines from 5 to 30 years.

The decree of December 29th, 1951 defines the conditions of production of the V.D.Q.S. Côtes of Ventoux.

July 27th, 1973, recognition in A.O.C.

Decree of November 3rd, 1994 relating to the name of controlled origin << Coasts of Ventoux >> - J.O Number 257 of November 5th, 1994

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