The local wines

The quality of the Corsican local wines symbolizes this new trend into the Corsican wine growing, and represents the ¾ of the production.

Often disparaged, these wines became a real economical and strategic stake in Corsica.

Thanks to the dynamism of the producers, but above all, thanks to involved cooperative cellars, which produce and market the main part of the volume (80%), this appellation is really surprising regarding its amazing value for money.

In this category “Corsican local wines”, we can notice 2 kinds of wines:

·      The varietal wines (“vins de cépages”) : local wines sold under domain names, like Niellucciu, Vermentinu, Sciaccarellu, and continental grape varieties names like the Cabernet Sauvignon and the Merlot.

·      The local wines “primeurs”, marketed since the third Thursday of October, with an immediate consumption goal, synonym of pleasure.

Some figures:

• Area: 3.156 ha


• Production: 194 249,5 hl


• Output: 61 hl/ha


• Number of producers: 36 private cellars / 5 cooperative cellars / 1 SICA

 picture : www.monsieur-vin.fr (clos Canarelli)

The AOC are putting into question?

From now, the domains that produce the AOC may consider this new competence: the local wines.

As a whole, the local wines are targeting customers who are discovering the wines, or who are not looking for complexity.

The most common local wines are marketed in large-scale distribution. But these new appellations can also produce wines of very high quality! We can say that the AOC can be competed by the local wines, from the bottom but also from the top.