Vins de primeur are French wine

French wine

French wine is produced in several regions throughout France, in quantities between 50 and 60 million hectolitres per year, or 7–8 billion bottles. France has the world's second-largest total vineyard area, behind Spain, and is in the position of being the world's largest wine producer...

s permitted by Appellation d'origine contrôlée

Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée

Appellation d’origine contrôlée , which translates as "controlled designation of origin", is the French certification granted to certain French geographical indications for wines, cheeses, butters, and other agricultural products, all under the auspices of the government bureau Institut National...

(AOC) regulations to be sold in the same year

Vintage

Vintage, in wine-making, is the process of picking grapes and creating the finished product . A vintage wine is one made from grapes that were all, or primarily, grown and harvested in a single specified year. In certain wines, it can denote quality, as in Port wine, where Port houses make and...

 that they are harvested. The most widely exported nouveau wine

Wine

Wine is an alcoholic beverage, made of fermented fruit juice, usually from grapes. The natural chemical balance of grapes lets them ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, or other nutrients. Grape wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast...

 is Beaujolais nouveau

Beaujolais nouveau

Beaujolais nouveau is a red wine made from Gamay grapes produced in the Beaujolais region of France. It is the most popular vin de primeur, fermented for just a few weeks before being released for sale on the third Thursday of November...

 which is released on the third Thursday of November, often only a few weeks after the grapes were harvested. As of 2005, there were 55 AOCs in France permitted to make nouveau wines. Less than half of these AOCs are required to have the words primeur or nouveau printed on the label

Label

A label is a piece of paper, polymer, cloth, metal, or other material affixed to a container or article, on which is printed a legend, information concerning the product, addresses, etc. A label may also be printed directly on the container or article....

. Depending the AOC regulations, a nouveau wine may be red, white or rosé

Rosé

A rosé is a type of wine that has some of the color typical of a red wine, but only enough to turn it pink. The pink color can range from a pale orange to a vivid near-purple, depending on the grapes and wine making techniques.- Production techniques :There are three major ways to produce rosé...

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White only

• Anjou AOC
• Blayais AOC
• Bourgogne AOC
• Bourgogne aligoté AOC
  Bourgogne Aligoté AOC
  Bourgogne Aligoté is an Appellation d'origine contrôlée for white wine produced from the Aligoté grape variety in the region of Burgundy in France...
  
  
• Bourgogne Grand Ordinaire AOC
• Côtes de Bourg AOC
• Entre-Deux-Mers AOC
• Graves AOC
• Graves de Vayres AOC
• Mâcon supérieur AOC
• Mâcon-villages AOC
• Muscadet AOC
• Muscadet de Sèvre-et-Maine AOC
• Muscadet des coteaux de la Loire AOC
• Muscadet Côtes de Grand-Lieu AOC
• Premières Côtes de Blaye AOC
• Sainte-Foy-Bordeaux AOC
• Saumur AOC
• Touraine AOC
  Touraine AOC
  Touraine is an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée in the Loire Valley wine region in France that produce dry, white wines and red wines rich in tannins. The AOC status was awarded by a decree of December 24, 1939...
  
  

Rosé only

• Bordeaux AOC
  Bordeaux AOC
  In the Bordeaux wine region there are seven regional Appellations d'origine contrôlée that may be used throughout the Gironde department. These are Bordeaux Rouge AOC, Bordeaux Supérieur Rouge, Bordeaux Clairet, Bordeaux Rosé, Bordeaux Blanc, a dry white, Bordeaux Supérieur Blanc, a sweet white,...
  
  
• Cabernet d'Anjou AOC
• Cabernet de Saumur AOC
• Faugères AOC
  Faugères AOC
  Faugères is an Appellation d'origine contrôlée in the Languedoc-Roussillon wine region in France and is named after Faugères. It is also known as Coteaux-du-Languedoc Faugères and lies 20 km northwest of Béziers, on the hills of Hérault...
  
  
• Rosé d'Anjou AOC
• Rosé de Loire AOC
• Saint-Chinian AOC
  Saint-Chinian AOC
  Saint-Chinian is an Appellation d'origine contrôlée in the Languedoc-Roussillon wine region in France and is named after Saint-Chinian.-Prehistoric and antiquity:...
  
  
• Tavel AOC
  Tavel AOC
  Tavel is a wine-growing Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée in the southern Rhône wine region of France, across the Rhône River from Châteauneuf-du-Pape AOC and just north of Avignon. Tavel wines are all rosé wines and must have a minimum alcohol content of 11%...
  
  
• Touraine AOC
  Touraine AOC
  Touraine is an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée in the Loire Valley wine region in France that produce dry, white wines and red wines rich in tannins. The AOC status was awarded by a decree of December 24, 1939...
  
  

White or rosé

• Buzet AOC
  Buzet AOC
  Buzet is an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée for wine in South West France, in the department of Lot-et-Garonne.-History:Originally known as Côtes de Buzet, it was a Vin Délimité de Qualité Supérieure from 1953, and was promoted to AOC status in 1973...
  
  
• Corbières AOC
  Corbières AOC
  Corbières is an Appellation d'origine contrôlée for wine in the Languedoc-Roussillon, and it is this region's largest AOC, responsible for 46 per cent of the region's AOC wine production in 2005. Red wine dominates the production in Corbières with almost 95 per cent, with 3.5 per cent rosé wine...
  
  
• Costières de Nîmes AOC
  Costières de Nîmes AOC
  Costières de Nîmes is an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée for wines that are produced in an area between the ancient city of Nîmes and the western Rhône delta, in the French department of the Gard...
  
  
• Coteaux d'Aix-en-Provence AOC
• Coteaux du Languedoc AOC
• Coteaux Varois AOC
• Côtes de Duras AOC
• Côtes du Marmandais AOC
• Côtes de Provence AOC
• Mâcon AOC
• Minervois AOC
• Montravel AOC

Red or rosé

• Anjou Gamay AOC
• Beaujolais AOC (Beaujolais Nouveau)
• Beaujolais supérieur AOC
• Beaujolais-Villages AOC
• Coteaux du Languedoc AOC
• Touraine Gamay AOC

All styles

• Bergerac AOC
• Coteaux du Lyonnais AOC
• Coteaux du Tricastin AOC
  Coteaux du Tricastin AOC
  Coteaux du Tricastin AOC is the northernmost wine-growing AOC in the southern area of the Rhône wine region of France. The wines are produced in 21 communes in the department of Drôme on the east bank of the Rhône River in a triangle bounded by Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, Montélimar, and Grignan;...
  
  
• Côtes du Rhône AOC
  Côtes du Rhône AOC
  Côtes du Rhône is a wine-growing Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée for the Rhône wine region of France, which may be used throughout the region, also in those areas which are covered by other AOCs...
  
  
• Côtes du Roussillon AOC
  Côtes du Roussillon AOC
  Côtes du Roussillon is an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée for wines made in the Roussillon wine region of France. It is the least selective AOC in the Roussillon region. In 2002, 21,048,500 litres of Côtes du Roussillon were produced, 68% red, 28% rosé and 4% white. Grenache is the dominant variety...
  
  
• Côtes du Ventoux AOC
  Côtes du Ventoux AOC
  Ventoux AOC is a wine-growing AOC in the southeastern region of the Rhône wine region of France, where the wines are produced in 51 communes of the Vaucluse département along the lower slopes of the Ventoux mountain and at the foot of the Vaucluse Mountains...
  
  
• Gaillac AOC
  Gaillac AOC
  Gaillac AOC is an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée in South West France in the département of Tarn, just north of Toulouse.-History:...
  
  
• Jurançon AOC