While Grand Noir de la Calmette originated in France, and was once widely planted in the Cognac and Languedoc wine region, today it is rarely planted in the country with less than  in cultivation in 2008.
Grand Noir de la Calmette, which originally came from France and was previously extensively grown in the Cognac and Languedoc regions, is now scarcely cultivated in the nation where fewer than 1 hectare was planted in 2008.