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Côtes du Rhône Villages Vaison-la-Romaine

Sub-zone

Côtes du Rhône Villages Vaison-la-Romaine is a named sub-zone of Côtes du Rhône Villages in France, covering 216.6 ha in Buisson and Villedieu. That is 0.5% of the Côtes du Rhône Villages appellation area. The rules allow red, rosé and white wine. Regional bedrock: mixed sedimentary rocks. It lies around the town of Vaison-la-Romaine and 24 km north-east of Orange.

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Key facts

Type
Dénomination géographique complémentaire
Within
Côtes du Rhône Villages
Category
Vin tranquille
Area
216.6 ha
Separate plots
38
Extent N–S × E–W
2.82 × 7.63 km
Centre
44.2796° N, 5.0413° E

Where it is

Nearest town
around the town of Vaison-la-Romaine
Nearest city
24 km north-east of Orange 30,530 people
To the sea
80 km

Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.

Terrain

Elevation
187–432 m
Mean elevation
288 m
Mean slope
7.1° (12 %)
Steepest tenth
above 13°
Faces
north-west

Measured over the whole outline on 12,599 elevation cells of about 14 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles).

Vintages: Southern Rhône

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510
311
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214
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516
317
318
519
420
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324

Atlas editorial scores: a consensus of widely published vintage reports, not one critic's view. Scores for 2023 and 2024 are early and can change as the wines develop. Scale 1 to 5.

Bedrock

Regional bedrock from the GLiM global lithological map (Hartmann and Moosdorf 2012), not a soil survey.

Communes · 2

Sources

INAO, Délimitation parcellaire des AOC viticoles (Licence Ouverte 2.0)

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