This region presents a wide variety of wines and grape varieties of a more diversified. The main red varieties are Carignan, Grenache, Syrah, Cinsault, Mourvèdre and Muscardin. The main white grape varieties are Grenache Blanc, the macabeu the carignan white, Clairette, Picpoul, Bourboulenc the mauzac and muscats. To view the varieties of this region, very heterogeneous, it is preferable to focus on major labels.
- Coteaux du Languedoc: it blends practice. The carignan planted on shale in the dry areas and gives wine colored and tannic, and Cinsault, which provides flexible and light wine (rosé and vegetables), cover 40% of the vineyard. All varietals Grenache, Lladoner, Mourvedre and Syrah is the same hand. Grenache quite erratic in performance, gives the wine a generous, round, fat and quite aromatic, while the shiraz, earlier, gives wines bodied and very colorful, like mourvèdre, which itself is quite late. The white wines are made from Grenache Blanc, Picpoul, Clairette, bourboulenc, Marsanne, Roussanne and Rolle, except those of La Clape, from single picpoul.
- Costières-de-Nîmes: the costières are among the vineyards of the Rhone valley, although depend administratively winegrowers in Languedoc-Roussillon.
- Faugères the carignan covers 40% of the vineyard. It is complemented by the traditional black grenache and cinsault, but also by the mourvèdre and especially syrah, with strong growth.
- Minervois: the dominant grape variety is Carignan, which is completed by Grenache planted on the Marne, cinsault on sandstone, and Mourvèdre and Syrah. Muscat is grown in Saint-Jean-de-Minervois. There is also a specific designation, Minervois-la-Livinière, resulting in 60% of grapes grenache, syrah and Mourvèdre.
- Corbières: prepared primarily from carignan (limited to 60%) and grenache noir, the implantation of Syrah and Mourvedre has allowed the wine to gain in finesse.
- Limoux: best known for its sparkling wine, Blanquette and Crémant. They are derived mainly from mauzac, 60% for cream and 90% for the blanquette, which gives the wine a taste of apple characteristic. It is complemented in the assembly by the Chenin, which brings the liveliness and fruitiness, and the chardonnay.
- Côtes du Roussillon Villages: whites are mainly from Grenache grapes macabeu and white, but also the malvasia du Roussillon, the marsanne of roussanne and vermentino. The carignan is dominant in the development of red and rosé but given the requirement to assemble at least three varieties, grow grenache noir, the Pelut Lladonner, Cinsault, Mourvèdre and Syrah.
- The natural sweet wines: These wines have the reputation of Roussillon are derived, following the designation of grenache blanc (Rivesaltes), Muscat à petits grains and Alexandria (Muscat from Rivesaltes) or grenache noir ( Banyuls and Maury). Grapes are the macabeu (Rivesaltes, Maury), the malvasia (Rivesaltes) and carignan (Maury).
