Wines and spirits Castanet Tolosan

The Comité Interprofessionnel des Vins du Sud-Ouest (South-West Wine Trade Committee) defends a wine industry spread over more than six thousand vineyards and twelve departments. Housed within the INRA, it oversees the grape varieties, appellations and wine-growing areas of the Greater South-West with twenty-nine AOPs and thirteen IGPs, from Tursan to Côtes-de-Millau, including Saint-Sardos, Irouleguy and Madiran. The committee supports research, monitors quality and competition and organises public information missions. It has also created a new concept called Sud-Ouest de coeur, in order to promote the region's wines as part of the art of living of an entire territory.