Côtes de Provence is a wine AOC in the Provence region of France. A glass of white wine This article is about the beverage. ... The French designation Appellation dOrigine Contrôlée (AOC), roughly translated to term of origin, is a certification granted to certain French wines, cheeses, butters, and other agricultural products by a government bureau known as the Institut National des Appellations dOrigine (INAO). ... Provence is a former Roman province and is now a region of southeastern France, located on the Mediterranean Sea adjacent to Frances border with Italy. ...

About 80% of the wines are rosé. These and the red wines are made from Grenache, Cinsaut, Syrah, Mourvèdre, Tibouren, Carignan and Cabernet Sauvignon grapes. There are also a few white wines, made from Rolle, Ugni Blanc, Clairette and Semillon grapes. The characters of the wines (and the colours of the rosés) vary enormously over the region, as the climate and soils are very variable. Rosé is a type of wine that is neither purely red wine nor purely white wine. ... Grenache is a sweet red grape variety grown primarily for the making of wine. ... Cinsaut or Cinsault is a red wine France. ... Shiraz is one name, equivalent to Syrah, for a noble grape variety widely used to make dry red table wine. ... Mourvèdre is a variety of wine grape grown around the world, and is Spains second-most important red wine grape after Garnacha, and was once Provences most popular grape. ... Carignan (in French; Spanish Cariñena, Italian Carignano, Spanish variety of grape that originated in Cariñena, Aragon and was later transplanted to Italy, Algeria, and much of the New World. ... Cabernet Sauvignon is a variety of red grape mainly used for wine production, and is, along with Chardonnay, one of the most widely-planted of the worlds noble grape varieties. ... Species Vitis acerifolia Vitis aestivalis Vitis amurensis Vitis arizonica Vitis x bourquina Vitis californica Vitis x champinii Vitis cinerea Vitis x doaniana Vitis girdiana Vitis labrusca Vitis x labruscana Vitis monticola Vitis mustangensis Vitis x novae-angliae Vitis palmata Vitis riparia Vitis rotundifolia Vitis rupestris Vitis shuttleworthii Vitis tiliifolia Vitis... Rolle is a small town in the Vaud canton of Switzerland, situated near Geneva, Switzerland. ... Trebbiano is a white grape used to make white wine, and the most common white grape variety in Italy, accounting for around a third of all Italys white wine. ... Sémillon is a golden-skinned grape used to make white wines, most notably in Bordeaux and Australia. ...