The basic variety for Côtes de Provence, it gives young wines elegant red berry aromas, later on evolving toward more complex, spicy and animal notes. The key words here are fleshy, fullness and strength.

Excellent as a basis for an assemblage, it produces well-constituted wines with a good colour.

This tasty and attractive variety, for many years a dessert grape, produces refreshingly fruity wines, moderating the strength of other varieties.

A native of Spain, it produces robust, deeply coloured, rough wines, rich in tannins, which take on characteristic vanilla, Havana tobacco and jammy red fruit notes.

A widely used variety in Provence, it produces a highly coloured and tannic wine for long cellaring and enjoys a characteristic green pepper nose.

Robust and of excellent gustatory quality, this variety imparts citrus and pear and delicate body and aromas.

Very robust, with round, juicy berries, used to produce a clear, fruity wine of great finesse.