The Conseil Interprofessionnel des Vins du Roussillon (CIVR) is the body charged with the overall regulation and promotion of the wines from Roussillon in Southern France; a region of 19,000ha of vineyards and over 400 wineries. While this is a large entity, to put it into perspective, it’s nowhere near as large as the CIVL of neighboring Languedoc. The latter holds a massive spread of vineyards (220,000ha) and appellations producing everything from reds of substance to sweets to sparklings and well, everything. With so many disparate parts, it’s been the […]
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