Skip to main content. FR EN. Request new password. You are here Home. The new wines and Primeur wines are released on the third Thursday in October, a month before the other new wines. A great occasion for trying new vintages. Regulations regarding varieties and labelling practices are typically more lenient than the regulations for AOC wines. There are three tiers of Vin de Pays: regional, departmental and local. There are six regional Vins de Pays, which cover large areas of France.
The most voluminous contributor to this category of wines is Vin de Pays d'Oc, from the Languedoc-Roussillon area in Mediterranean France. The second largest volume of Vin de Pays wines is produced as Vin de Pays de la Loire, a designation that applies to wines from the whole Loire Valley.
Features Vegetarian. The catchment area for the IGP corresponds roughly to the Languedoc-Roussillon wine region — one of the largest winegrowing areas in France.
Five separate departements fall under the IGP, which is delimited by administrative boundaries rather than geographical ones. As such, a range of terrain is covered by the denomination, from the southern mountain ranges of the Massif Central to the river-crossed coastal plains.
Vineyards jostle for space on the garrigue -strewn landscape. Dry, continental winds from the northwest bring cooling influences to the vineyards, as well as reducing disease pressure. This wind is interspersed with warm winds from the south which bring moisture to the vineyards. However, there is a large variation of terroir in this vast region, a fact reflected in the many AOC appellations, which produce everything from dry white wines, as in Picpoul de Pinet , to intense, fortified red wines like Banyuls.
Mediterranean grape varieties like Grenache and Cinsault are joined in the vineyards by more famous French varieties such as Cabernet Sauvignon , Merlot and Chardonnay. Due to the high quality of the terroir and the restrictive AOC laws — particularly those surrounding permitted grape varieties — many of the best and most famous wines made in the Languedoc-Roussillon region are labelled as IGP.
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