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Rosé des Riceys

Appellation

Rosé des Riceys is an appellation in France in Les Riceys. The rules allow rosé wine, based on Pinot Noir. Regional bedrock: carbonate sedimentary rocks. It lies 21 km north-west of Châtillon-sur-Seine and 40 km south of Troyes.

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Key facts

Type
AOP
Category
Wine
Protected since
1973-09-18
Area
4,314 ha outline of listed communes
Extent N–S × E–W
7.7 × 10.12 km
Centre
47.9917° N, 4.3704° E
Grapes
Pinot Noir

Where it is

Nearest town
21 km north-west of Châtillon-sur-Seine
Nearest city
40 km south of Troyes 60,785 people
To the sea
364 km
Lakes nearby
Orient (30 km)
Same latitude
Puget Sound (United States)

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

Terrain

Elevation
167–340 m
Mean elevation
247 m
Mean slope
6.5° (11 %)
Steepest tenth
above 14°
Faces
several directions, mostly north-west

Measured over the whole outline on 265,013 elevation cells of about 13 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Wines and grape rules

Rosé des Riceys Rosé
Pinot Noir

Vintages: Champagne

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406
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508
409
210
211
512
413
314
415
316
217
418
519
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422
323
224

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 · 1

Wineries · 1

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Sources

EU register of geographical indications

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