European Union wine growing zones

European Union wine growing zones

The European Union wine growing zones is a tool used in the common European Union (EU) wine law to regulate certain aspects of winemaking. The zones differ in terms of climate and examples of what is regulated by wine growing zone are required grape maturity at harvest and allowed levels of chaptalisation. There are 21 wine producing countries in the European Union, with 14 of them having significant levels of production. During the 2004-2005 vintage, total European Union wine production was around 184 million hectoliters (4.8 billion gallons) which accounted for nearly 70% of total worldwide production. Of that total nearly 55% was classified as table wine with 4% used in the production of grape based Distilled spirits such as Armagnac and Cognac. The remaining 41% were produced as "quality wine"-wine that produced under one of the quality wine designation in a country's appellation systems such as Germany's QmP & QbA classifications, France's "Appellation d'origine contrôlée" (AOC), Spain's "Denominación de Origen" (DO) and Italy's "Denominazione di origine controllata" (DOC) systems. In 1997, the European Union had over 3.4 million hectare (8.4 million acres) planted under vine which accounted for nearly 44% of the world's wine, table and raisin grape production. J. Robinson (ed) "The Oxford Companion to Wine" Third Edition pg 261 Oxford University Press 2006 ISBN 0198609906 ]

Wine zones

The wine growing zones and the wine regions that belong to them are as follows: [ [http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:1999:179:0001:0084:EN:PDF Council Regulation (CE) No 1493/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in wine - Annex III: Wine-growing zones] ]

* Zone A (the coldest), comprising Germany except Baden, Luxembourg, Belgium, United Kingdom and those countries in northern Europe where commercial winemaking is a very marginal business.
* Zone B, comprising Baden in Germany, Austria, and the French regions of Alsace, Champagne, Jura, Loire, Lorraine and Savoie.
* Zone C (the warmest), which is subdivided into:
** Zone C I a, comprising the French regions of Bordeaux, Burgundy, Provence, Rhône and Sud-Ouest, some areas in northern Spain and most of Portugal.
** Zone C I b, comprising some areas in the far north of Italy.
** Zone C II, comprising much of Languedoc-Roussillon in France, most of northern and central Italy and most of northern Spain.
** Zone C III a, comprising parts of Greece
** Zone C III b, comprising small parts close to the Mediterranean coast of France and Corsica, southern Italy and Spain, some parts of Portugal and most of Greece.

References

External links

* [http://www.wzw.tum.de/blm/alt/bmeier/pages/91zonen.htm Map of the wine-growing zones]


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