Cassis 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. ...

Most of the wines are white, made from Clairette, Ugni Blanc, Marsanne, Bourboulenc, Sauvignon Blanc and Pascal Blanc grapes. Unusually for southern French white wines, these age well. Red wines are made from Grenache, Cinsaut, Mourvèdre, Carignan and Barbaroux. As in most of Provence, rosé wines are also common. 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. ... Marsanne is a little used variety of grape, most common in the northern Rhône, where it often blended with Roussanne. ... Sauvignon Blanc is a white wine grape probably originating in the Bordeaux region of France that is now planted in much of the worlds winelands producing a crisp dry refreshing white varietal wine. ... 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... Grenache is a sweet red grape variety grown primarily for the making of wine. ... Cinsaut or Cinsault is a red wine France. ... 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. ... Rosé is a type of wine that is neither purely red wine nor purely white wine. ...