Jaillance clairette de die bio

Website: www.clairette-de-die.com

The Rhône isn’t somewhere you think of when it comes to sparkling wines, but it makes quite a lot of fizz, all from one region that isn’t all that well known. Die is a sparkling-wine-focused region in between the north and south of the Rhône, heading out east: as you drive down from Tain l’Hermitage to Avignon, you see the mountains loom up on the left, and the vineyards head into these.

The east of Die is at 200 m, but the average for the region is 421 m and they reach a peak of 744 m in the west. Overall the vineyard area covers 1600 hectares.

Clairette de Die and friends: the Diois wines from the Rhône

The syndicat – Clairette de Die et des vins du Diois – has 300 members. Before phylloxera, there were 6000 hectares, but this fell to 300 hectares in 1960, before a recent revival.

The region has 2000 years of history. Pliny mentioned this region, and the first mention of Clairette de Die, as Clerete, was in 1748. The AOC came quite early on in the roll out of French appellations, in 1942.

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