Vin de pays (French:[vɛ̃dəpɛ.i], "country wine") was a French wine classification that was above the vin de table classification, but below the appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) classification and below the former vin délimité de qualité supérieure classification. The vin de pays classification was replaced by the EU indication Indication Géographique Protégée in 2009.[1][2]
Legislation on the Vin de pays terminology was created in 1973 and passed in 1979,[3] allowing producers to distinguish wines that were made using grape varieties or procedures other than those required by the AOC rules, without having to use the simple and commercially non-viable table wine classification. Unlike table wines, which are only indicated as being from France, Vin de pays carries a geographic designation of origin, the producers have to submit the wine for analysis and tasting, and the wines have to be made from certain varieties or blends. Regulations regarding varieties and labelling practices were typically more lenient than the regulations for AOC wines.
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specific region within France (for example VindePays d'Oc from Languedoc-Roussillon or VindePaysde Côtes de Gascogne from Gascony), and subject to less...
use the vindepays ("country wine") designation, which restricted the sourcing of grapes to the defined vindepays regions, such as vindePays d'Oc from...
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or Barolo. It is considered broadly equivalent to the former French vindepays classification (which is now generally protected as protected geographical...
majority of French Viogniers are now grown in the Languedoc and sold as VindePays. Since the late 1980s, plantings of Viognier in the United States and...
to be blended (at least 2 varieties), so pure varietal wines must be vindepays. The red wines of the Minervois appellation are produced from Syrah and...
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white and rosé wine produced in the same area under the designation VindePays du Lot instead. Cahors vineyards comprise 4,200 hectares (10,000 acres)...
Côtes de Sambre et Meuse, was created in 2004, and is situated between the rivers Sambre and Meuse, in the vicinity of Liège. The two VindePays (country...
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wines known as Super Tuscans, and to be broadly equivalent to the French vindepays designation, official in Italy's Aosta Valley, where French is an official...
Appellation d'origine contrôlée wine, though it can be produced under some vindepays. There were only 11 hectares planted to Dureza in the late 1970s: by...
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