2003 Merlot de Campuget

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Today it is about 25,000 hectares, which is about right. However, Languedoc Roussillon is a huge wine area (300,000 hectares, the largest in the world), and Merlot represents only about 8%. More importantly, almost none of the appellations specifies Merlot as a component of the grape mix, so Merlot tends to be used only marginally in the mix. Where the mix contains primarily Merlot, it has to be a vin de pays. The only appellation I could find that actually lists Merlot in the allowed grape mix is Côtes de Cabardès, which I have never had (it can contain up to 40% of a combination of Cabernet and Merlot).