Côtes du Rhône is a wine-growing AOC for the Rhône wine region of France, covering areas outside the other named appellations both in the north and south. A glass of red 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). ... The Rhône wine region is first divided into north and south. ...

Red and rosé wines are made from Grenache Noir, Syrah, Cinsaut, Carignan, Counoise and Mourvèdre grapes, white wines from Clairette, Grenache Blanc, Marsanne, Roussanne, Viognier and Bourboulenc. 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. ... Shiraz is one name, equivalent to Syrah, for a noble grape variety widely used to make dry red table wine. ... Cinsaut or Cinsault is a red wine France. ... 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. ... 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. ... 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... Marsanne is a little used variety of grape, most common in the northern Rhône, where it often blended with Roussanne. ... Roussanne is a relatively rare variety of grape grown originally in the Rhône River Valley in France, and used in some white wines there and in the Tuscany region of Italy. ... Once a fairly common, and then a very rare white wine grape grown almost exclusively in the northern Rhône regions of France, Viognier (pronounced vee-oh-NYAY) has been planted much more extensively around the world since the early 1990s. ...