AOC area in the southwest wine region of France immediately west of the AOC area Gaillac. The name replaced the designation "Côtes du Frontonnais" from the 2005 vintage onwards. In the first classification, which took place in 1975, the two then VDQS divisions Villaudric and Fronton were merged. This is a very old wine-growing area, the first vines were planted by the Romans. It was once owned by the knights of the Order of Saint John, founded around 1050. During the siege of Montauban, capital of the Tarn-et-Garonne département and then headquarters of the Huguenots, King Louis XIII (1601-1643) and his minister Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642) carried out extensive wine tasting here.
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Markus J. Eser
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