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Cassis

Cassis is an appellation in France in Cassis. The rules allow red, rosé and white wine. Regional bedrock: carbonate sedimentary rocks. It lies around the town of Cassis and 8 km south of Aubagne.

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Key facts

Type

AOP

Category

Wine

Protected since

1973-09-18

Area

2,626 ha outline of listed communes

Extent N–S × E–W

6.66 × 7.11 km

Centre

43.2216° N, 5.5513° E

Grapes

Barbaroux, Bourboulenc, Carignan, Cinsaut, Clairette, Grenache, Marsanne, Mourvèdre, Pascal, Sauvignon, Terret Blanc, Terret Noir, Ugni Blanc

Max yield

45 hl/ha

Irrigation

Allowed

Where it is

Nearest town

around the town of Cassis

Nearest city

8 km south of Aubagne 44,844 people

To the sea

1.9 km

Same latitude

Niagara Peninsula (Canada), Hokkaido (Japan), Niagara Escarpment (United States)

Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.

Terrain

Elevation

0–396 m

Mean elevation

174 m

Mean slope

13.7° (24 %)

Steepest tenth

above 28°

Faces

several directions, mostly south

Measured over the whole outline on 136,455 elevation cells of about 14 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Wines and grape rules

Bedrock

• Carbonate sedimentary rocks (limestone, marl, dolomite)100%

Regional bedrock from the GLiM global lithological map (Hartmann and Moosdorf 2012), not a soil survey.

Communes · 1

• Cassis

Sources

EU register of geographical indications

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