French wine history

The origins of AOC date to the year 1411, when Roquefort cheese was regulated by a parliamentary decree. On July 30, 1935, the Comité National des appellations d’origine (CNAO), with representatives of the government and the major winegrowers, was created to manage the administration of the AOC process for wines. In the Rhône wine region Baron Pierre Le Roy Boiseaumariè, a trained lawyer and winegrower from Châteauneuf-du-Pape, successfully obtained legal recognition of the ‘Côtes du Rhône’ appellation of origin in 1936. After World War II the committee became the Institut National des Appellations d’Origine (INAO).