Clairette de Die AOC

Clairette de Die is an appellation for sparkling wine in the middle section of the great wine-growing region Rhône. The vineyards are located in 31 communities east of Crest near the eponymous town at The Creek Drome on the left bank of the Rhone. Some vineyards extend right up to the mountain massif of the Vercors. Since 26 March 1993, the wine-growing area has the status of an Appellation d' Origine (also called short AOC ). Already on 30 December 1942, there was an appellation of the same name. At that time the manufacturing methods were not specified for the sparkling wine and a white wine Still was also to receive under the name of Clairette de Die. Therefore, it came in 1993 to a restructuring of the appellation and it was within the same region and even the Coteaux de The established appellations Cremant.

In the year 1998 71.644 hectoliters of sparkling wine were produced on 1,232 hectares of vineyards.

Viticulture was already operating in the region at the time of the Romans. This testifies to the historian Pliny the Elder, who described the wine of the region in the year 77 in his work Naturalis historia.

The sparkling wines are produced according to the rules of the méthode dioise ancestrale. Here, the freshly squeezed juice is cooled before fermentation for about 48 hours to minus 3 ° C and then allowed to ferment at low temperatures. The not yet fully fermented, sweet and silent wine is then bottled. At this time, the halbvergorene must still has a residual sugar content of at least 55 g / l In the bottle, the wine is fermented at least 4 months and reached an alcohol content of about 7.5 % by volume at a remaining residual sugar of at least 35 g / l After removing the yeast residues, the wine is put into new bottles. Due to the residual sweetness There is no dosage liqueur with shipping.

Authorized varieties are the Clairette Blanche and Muscat blanc à petits grains. Although it is the Clairette, which gives the wine its name, the share of muscat grapes must be at least 75%. This gives the Clairette de Die his immensely fruity touch of nutmeg.

Approved communities

Aix -en- Diois, Aouste -sur -Sye, Aubenasson, Aurel, Barsac, Barnave, Beaufort -sur -Gervanne, Châtillon -en- Diois, The, Espenel, Laval - d'Aix, Luc -en- Diois, Menglon, Mirabel- et- Blacons, Molière - Glandaz, Montclar- sur -Gervanne, Montlaur -en- Diois, Montmaur -en- Diois, Piegros la Clastre, ponet -et -Saint- Auban Pontaix, Poyols, Recoubeau - Jansac, Saillans, Saint -Benoit -en- Diois, Saint-Roman, Saint- Sauveur -en- Diois, Sainte- Croix, Suze- sur- Crest, Vercheny and Véronne.