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Côtes du Roussillon Villages Lesquerde

Sub-zone

Côtes du Roussillon Villages Lesquerde is a named sub-zone of Côtes du Roussillon Villages in France, covering 921 ha in Lansac, Lesquerde and Rasigueres. That is 2.4% of the Côtes du Roussillon Villages appellation area. The rules allow red wine, based on Carignan, Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre. Regional bedrock: acid plutonic rocks. It lies 16 km north of Ille-sur-Têt and 31 km north-west of Perpignan.

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Key facts

Type
Dénomination géographique complémentaire
Within
Côtes du Roussillon Villages
Category
Vin tranquille
Area
921 ha
Extent N–S × E–W
5.57 × 5.9 km
Centre
42.8015° N, 2.5459° E

Where it is

Nearest town
16 km north of Ille-sur-Têt
Nearest city
31 km north-west of Perpignan 110,706 people
To the sea
40 km

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

Terrain

Elevation
216–448 m
Mean elevation
312 m
Mean slope
9.5° (17 %)
Steepest tenth
above 17°
Faces
south-east

Measured over the whole outline on 48,059 elevation cells of about 14 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles).

Bedrock

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

Communes · 3

Sources

INAO, Délimitation parcellaire des AOC viticoles (Licence Ouverte 2.0)

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