Sentence examples for outside the appellation from inspiring English sources

Our No. 1 bottle, the 2015 Domaine de la Grange des Pères, one of the producers working outside the appellation system, was lively, complex, textured and deliciously inviting.

Some of the best Maranges wines come from producers outside the appellation, like Louis Latour and Joseph Drouhin, major shippers in Beaune.

Marks & Spencer Syrah de l'Ardèche, France 2013 (£7.50) The Cave Saint-Desirat is based in Saint-Joseph in the Northern Rhône, but here sources its grapes from outside the appellation for a more affordable take on syrah.

It's a bit like Tuscan producers in the 1970s who, frustrated by inflexible and counterproductive restrictions in places like Chianti, chose instead to call their wines, no matter how ambitious, vino da tavola, or table wine, a category outside the appellation system generally reserved for simple, innocuous and inexpensive bottles.

The legislation would prevent distillers outside the appellations from using that marketing device.

States making agave spirits outside the appellations would be "out of luck," said Mr. Suro-Piñera, who fears small, disenfranchised distillers will give up their trade, leading to a loss for Mexican heritage.

(Tequila has five appellations, mezcal seven) Spirits whose fortunes would be hurt by the legislation include raicilla, a traditional mezcal-like spirit made for generations within the state of Jalisco, one of tequila's appellations; and artisanal spirits made outside the appellations that are mezcals in all but official name.

Most Châteauneuf-du-Pape estates also make these more modest wines, either from separate vineyards outside the boundaries of the appellation, or from portions of their Châteauneuf harvest that they declassify for various reasons.

Instead of the controlled appellations like Faugères, for example, they fall back on theoretically less prestigious general geographical categories like Vin de Pays de l'Hérault, which gives consumers an idea of a wine's provenance while allowing producers the option of working outside the rules of the appellation system.

The Home Vineyard, Mr. Harvey's first backyard planting, technically just outside the Santa Cruz Mountains appellation, was riper, denser and more concentrated, with a licorice aroma.

Producers like Mas de Daumas Gassac and Domaine de la Grange des Pères have become well known and respected while working outside the controlled appellation system.