Eagle-eyed Julia Harding MW, queen of the online generic websites, has spotted that the French wine authorities have made the following rulings of interest:
- Oak chips are now officially banned from all Appellation Contrôlée wines.
- The old VDQS Côtes de Malepère has officially graduated to become the fully fledged AC Malepère.
- The AC Coteaux du Languedoc has now been officially replaced by the massive appellation Languedoc which includes all the terrain officially classified as AC in not just the Languedoc region but all of Roussillon as well.
This last development presumably gives those individual appellations such...