Counoise is one of the more rarefied varietal ingredients in red châteauneuf-du-pape, easily confused in the vineyard with the much lesser southern Rhône variety aubun, with which it may sometimes be mingled in older vineyards. It is authorized as a supplementary ingredient for most red wine appellations around the southern Rhône, including languedoc aoc (which allows Aubin as a synonym) but, although varietal southern French versions are made, it is not widely grown outside Châteauneuf-du-Pape. Total French plantings increased in the 1980s to around 900 ha/2,200 acres but were only 369 ha in 2011.
