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Cote (French term)
A cote or cõte in French is a slope or hillside. It is used in many regions of France - Cõte Rõtie (Rhõne Valley), Cõte d'Or (Burgundy), Cõte de Castillon (Bordeaux).
Cote de Beaune (coat duh bone)
The southern half of the Cote d'Or in Burgundy, France. While the northern vineyards are almost exclusively red, the vineyards of the Cote de Beaune produce both red and white.
Cote Rotie has integrated early acidities well, and is blossoming to a long-lived, very complete year. Excellent Hermitage and Cornas - full and long-lived. The best St Josephs and Crozes reds will live for 10 years.
Indeed, the choice of a type of vine depends on the ground and the climate: the Cinsault, for example be a type of vine recommended in the Vaucluse (it be contained in the composition des wine red and rosé of Cote du Rhone), ...
To make matters even more complicated, let's look at another appellation of Burgundy that produces white wines: Chablis' neighbor-Cote d'Or.
Acqui, Barbirono, Bathiolin, Batialin, Beina, Bignola, Bignona, Bignonia, Bignonina, Bourdon Noir, Cassolo, Charbonneau, Charbono, Chasselas Noir, Cote Rouge Merille, Crete de Coq, Debili Rifosk, Dolcedo Rotstieliger, Dolceto, Dolcetta Nera, ...
They are: Chablis, Cote D'Or, Cote Chalonnaise, Maconnais, and Beaujolais.
Burgundy includes Chablis, Cote d'Or, Cõte de Nuits, Cote de Beaune, and Maconnais
Champagne
Jura
Loire Valley includes Muscadet, Vouvray and Sancerre ...
Beaune: The "hub" City in Burgundy's Cote de Beaune district.
Beerenauslese: Literally, "berry selection" in German. Beerenauslese wines are made from grapes that are picked individually rather than a whole bunch at a time.
JURANÇON: (aka Folle Noire on the Cote d'Azur). Minor grape grown in the Cahors area east of Bordeaux in France. Used to create local blend, along with Malbec and Merlot, that is a well-regarded robust red wine with pronounced aroma.
The great red of France’s northern Rhone Valley, where it produces the famed wines of Cote-Rotie and Hermitage, syrah, in recent years, has become the darling of winemakers around the globe, especially in Australia, ...
For the top red wines, look for Chateauneuf-du-Pape, Cote-Rotie and Hermitage in the Rhone; Bandol in Provence, and Coteaux du Languedoc, particularly Pic Saint Loup, in the Languedoc.
a Folle Noire on the Cote d'Azur). Minor grape grown in the Cahors area east of Bordeaux in France. Used to create local blend, along with Malbec and Merlot, that is a well-regarded robust red wine with pronounced aroma.
4,500,000 (population of Provence Alpes Cote d'Azur)
Main Cities:
Marseille (830,000 - including county 1,400,000)
Nice (350,000)
Toulon (165,000)
Aix en Provence (135,000)
Cannes (70,000) ...
Plummy
Often applied to big, round, ripe reds from Pomerol, St-Emilion, Cote Du Nuits and Napa
Prickly
A wine with slight residual gas in it. Usually attractive in light young whites, but in reds it is often a sign of refermentation in bottle ...
Smoky - Wines can have smoky aromas either from their own characteristics (for example, Cote-Rotie typically has a smoky bacon-like aroma) or from oak aging. Oak, particularly if it is heavily charred, can impart a profound smoky, roasted aroma.
For many, many years, Syrah was France's little secret - a grape grown almost exclusively in the Northern Rhone Valley, producing scant bottles of legendary wines such as Hermitage and Cote-Rotie.
Blended in Chateauneuf-du-Pape and standing alone in Hermitage, Cote-Rotie and other Rhone reds, it makes tannic, ageworthy wines easily identified by a very characteristic floral black-pepper fragrance.
Marl: A crumbly combination of limestone and clay that may be added to deficient soils. Marl also occurs naturally in some French and German wine regions. The finest Cote d'Or wines are grown on marl.
Tannins in red wine can react harshly with a light, delicate fish, and so a red such as Pinot Noir is advisable, as this has a light flavor. Similarly, the lack of acid in a Cote du Rhone or a Cabernet Franc will help to meld the flavor of the wine ...
 See also: Region, Style, Grape, Appellation, Wine
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