What is an AOC ?
2 10 2007DEFINITION
The concept of AOC is founded on the association of a territory, one or several type of vines and a know-how.
It is this original association which confers on the wines non reproducible characteristics elsewhere because they are non transportable to another site.
Therefore the vine grower must be at the service of his soil, and the choice of type of vine as well as the oenological processes must reinforce the expression of the soil and the vine through the wine.
HISTORICAL
In 1935, under the impulse of the vine growers, the concept of Controlled Label of Origin (AOC) was created.
The following year, the Minister for the Agriculture ratified the creation of the National Institute of the Labels of Origin (INAO) which officialized the AOC in France.
