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AOP Cotes du Rhone Village Signargues

You will not find a village or at least a "hameau" named Sinargues. It's a plateau situated between four communes, Domazan, Estézargues, Rochefort-du-Gard and Saze.


Until 2005 the appellation for these four communes was Cotes du Rhone Village, but since 2005 the name of the wines from selected parcels may add the name Signargues. Only red wines are included in the appallation.

The rules for the use of grapes, le encépagement, is like other Village-appellations: At least 50% Grenache, At least 20% Syrah or Mourvedre and not more than 20% other varieties.

In the four communes you'll find two co-operatives in Estézargues and in Rochefort-du-Gard, Les Vignerons du Castelas

If you look at the figures below it's obvious that one of the smallest villages, Domazan, has the most private producers. It's a tradition for the winegrowers in Domazan to sell a part of the wines to a negociant, sometimes more than 90%. It's also normal, that a domain has quite many hectares and therefore it's not that easy to sell all the crop which until 2005 was "only" Cotes du Rhone Village and now with a name (Signargues) which might not be familiar to the main part of the consumers around the world.
If you are a wine lover and have had the opportunity to taste the wines from some of the best private producers, then you will expect that Signargues in a foreseable future will be a CRU (Together with Visan and a few years after Cairanne)

Inhabitants

Area in km2

Producers 1) Producers 2)
Rochefort-du-Gard 6.400

34,0

2 0
Saze 1.500 12,6 2 4
Domazan 750 11,4 10 9
Estézargues 400 11,6 0 0
1) Private producers presented on this website.
2) Private producers so far only mentioned at
other producers.

The potentiel area of the appellation is not known by the publisher of this site, but as you can see below it's more than 500 hectares. 
The considerable differens between 2008 and 2009 indicates that a bigger part of the production in 2008 was bottled as Cotes du Rhone.

Declared area and yield 2006-2010

Vintage 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Hectares 420 419 385 501 433
Hectolitres 16319 16655 14837 18972 15784
Hl./ha. 38,85 39,75 38,54 37,87 36
Source: Monaoc.com.

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Christophe Coste Domaine de la Charité.
Président of 
Syndicat des Vignerons de Signargues

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Valerie Collomb
Domaine de la Valériane

Damien Chastan 
Domaine Chastan

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Jean-Baptiste Crouzet
Domaine de Magalanne

Jean-Jacques Delorme
Domaine Marie-Blanche

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Jean-Marie Popelin
Domaine Haut Musiel

Didier Remy-Gallon
Chateau Remillon

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Xavier Fabre
Domaine des Romarins

Pierre Jauffret
Chateau Terre Forte

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Update 02-04-2011