Abstract
By its diversity and importance within the departmental and regional agricultural space, the Var vineyard represents a good dynamic structural example of the French Mediterranean vineyards in full transformation. With its 43 .000 hectares in 1980, this vineyard used to occupy the two-thirds of the Varois agricultural spaces, virtually a monoculture in much of the department. But between 1959 and 1980 this vineyard lost 30% of its area. The vineyards yielding ordinary table-wines were the first concerned in the decline whereas a considerable effort was made (choice of varieties). The turning of the «V.D.Q.S.» into «A.O.C.», the diminution of the number of vine-growers and the increasing value of the estates compared to the number of «village farming concerns» of the wine-cooperatives are characteristic features. The output keeps up in spite of the dwindling area while a cooperative effort and technical gathering is producing to a second generation of «intercommunal» cooperatives with a concentration parallel to that of the wine merchants.
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