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Hospices de Beaune
Annual celebration on 3rd Sunday of November in Beaune at which the wines produced from the vineyards of the Hôtel-Dieu and Hospice de la Charité are auctioned off. Total of 58 ha combined split into dozens of cuvées, so one of largest land owners in Côte d’Or.
Métayage
Share cropping agreement between bourgeoisie growers and farmers in Burgundy
Fermage
Lease agreement between grower and farmer in Burgundy
Sélection Massale
Method of propagating Pinot Noir vine used by many Burgundian producers
Pinot Beurot
Pinot Gris in Burgundy
white grapes in Burgundy
Chardonnay
Pinot Blanc
Aligoté
Pinot Beurot (rare)
Generic appellations of Burgundy
Bourgogne AOP Bourgogne Aligoté AOP Bourgogne Mousseux AOP Bourgogne Passe-Touts-Grains AOP Coteaux Bourguignons AOP Crémant de Bourgogne AOP
Bourgogne AOP departements
Côte d’Or
Yonne
Rhône
Saône-et-Loire
Lieu-dit of Bourgogne AOP
4 La Chapelle Notre-Dame La Chapitre Montrecul Côte Saint-Jacques
Regional Appellations of Bourgogne AOP
5 Côte d'Auxerre Côte Chalonnaise Côtes du Couchois Hautes Côtes de Beaune Hautes Côtes de Nuits
Communal Appellations of Bourgogne AOP
5 Chitry Coulanges-le-Vineuse Epineuil Tonnerre Vézelay
Crémant de Bourgogne AOP styles
Vin Mousseux Blanc & Rosé
Bourgogne Aligoté AOP
Same area as Bourgogne AOP
100% Aligoté
Bourgogne Mousseux AOP
Red only traditional method sparkling
Pinot Noir & Gamay (with César in Yonne dept.)
lower pressure than Crémant and may be released immediately after disgorgement after 9 months en tirage
Bourgogne Passetoutgrains AOP
Rosé & Rouge Min. 30% Pinot Noir Min. 15% Gamay Max. 15% Chard, PG, PB Fermented together, simple, inexpensive
Gamay in Burgundy
Principal grape in Beaujolais
Up to 2/3 of Passetoutgrains
Permitted in Coteaux Bourguignons
Other varieties: Gamay de Bouze, Gamay de Chaudenay
Coteaux Bourguignons AOP
Formerly: Bourgogne Grand Ordinaire AOP
Same area as Bourgogne AOP
Blanc, Rosé & Rouge
Allows Gamay in addition to PN as principal variety
Four quality levels of Burgundy appellation system
regional
village
premier cru
grand cru (Côte d’Or & Chablis only)
Yields go down as level goes up, thus encouraging more concentrated fruit that can stand up to more new wood and longer élevage.
From what villages are grapes for Côte de Beaune-Village AOP sourced?
All of them except: Pommard Volnay Aloxe-Corton Beaune
From what villages are grapes for Côte de Nuits-Village AOP sourced?
5 Fixin Brochon Prissey Corgoloin Comblanchien
Only village in Côte d’Or that allows Rouge, Blanc & Rosé
Marsannay
Soil in Chablis
Kimmeridgian: best, all Grand Cru sites
Portlandien: formerly just for Petit Chablis
Both mix of limestone and clay with marine fossils
AOPs of Chablis
4 Petit Chablis Chablis Premier Cru Grand Cru
St-Bris
Communal AOP zone adjacent to Chablis for white wines of Sauvignon Blanc and Sauvignon Gris
Where are the Grand Cru of Chablis?
All occupy a single southwestern facing hillside north of town of Chablis and are on Kimmeridgian soil.
Irancy
Communal AOP zone in Yonne dept for red wines based on Pinot Noir, César & Pinot Gris
Chapelot
Lieu-dit of Montée de Tonnerre considered to be of GC quality
AOPs of Yonne dept
12 Petit Chablis Chablis Chablis Premier Cru Chablis Grand Cru Bourgogne Chitry Bourgogne Côtes d'Auxerre Bourgogne Coulanges-La-Vineuse Bourgogne Epineuil Bourgogne Tonnerre Bourgogne Vézelay Irancy St-Bris
Soil in Côte d’Or
Oolitic limestone and marl
Marl better for reds
Limestone better for whites
East-facing broad slopes best for viticulture, not hilltops or flatlands
Le Corton
Very large, least dependable Grand Cru in Côte de Beane
both red and white wine
only GC for red not in Côte de Nuits
Comte Georges de Vogüé
Sole producer of Grand Cru Musigny Blanc
Village appellations for red wine from north to south in Côte de Nuits
8 Marsannay Fixin Gevrey-Chambertin Morey-St-Denis Chambolle-Musigny Vougeot Vosne-Romanée (Flagey-Echézeaux) Nuits-St-Georges (Prémeaux)
Grand Cru vineyards of Gevrey-Chambertin
9 Chambertin Chambertin-Clos de Bèze Charmes-Chambertin Mazoyères Chambertin Chapelle-Chambertin Griotte-Chambertin Latricières-Chambertin Mazis-Chambertin Ruchottes-Chambertin
Lavaux St-Jacques
Premier cru, Gevrey-Chambertin
Dom. Bernard Dugat-Py
Northernmost commune in Côte d’Or
Marsannay
GCs of Morey-St-Denis
4, plus sliver of Les Beaune Mares: Clos de la Roche Clos St-Denis Clos des Lambrays Clos de Tart
Largest commune of Côte de Nuits
Gevrey-Chambertin
Bonne Mares
Grand Cru vineyard shared by Morey-St-Denis & Chambolle-Musigny
Musigny
One of Burgundy’s best GCs
Divided by a path into two sections:
Grand Musigny
Petits Musignys
Grand Cru of Vougeot
1
Clos de Vougeot
Premier Cru villages of Fixin
5 Les Arvelets Les Hervelets Clos de la Perrière (monopole) Clos du Chapitre (monopole) Clos Napoléon (monopole)
Grands Crus of Flagey- Echézeaux
2
Echézeaux
Grand Echézeaux
GCs of Vosne-Romanée
6 Romanée-Conti La Romanée La Tâche Richebourg Romanée-St-Vivant La Grande Rue
Grand Cru vineyards of Chambolle-Musigny
2 GC vineyards:
Bonne Mares (shared with Morey-St-Denis)
Le Musigny
Top PCs of Vosne-Romanée
Top PCs of Vosne-Romanée Aux Malconsorts Clos de Réas (monopole-Michel Gros) Beaux Monts Cros Parantoux Aux Reignots Les Gaudichots Les Petits Monts Les Brûlée Les Suchots
Clos de Vougeot
largest GC of Côte de Nuits
Only GC of Vougeot
100+ parcels with more than 80 owners
Variable quality, best at top of slope
Top PCs of Nuits-St-Georges
Aux Boudots Aux Cras Les Pruliers Les Perrières Les St-Georges (arguably GC quality) Les Cailles Les Vaucrains Clos de l'Arlot Les Argillières Clos de la Maréchale
top producers of Gevrey-Chambertin
Armand Rousseau
Claude Dugat
Fourrier
Lieux-dits of La Tâche
2
La Tâche
La Tâche-Gaudichots
top producers of Morey-St-Denis
Dujac
Ponsot
top producers of Vosne-Romanée
DRC Henri Jayer Dom. Leroy Michel Gros Anne Gros Jean Grivot Meó Camuzet
Nuits-St-Georges
2nd to only to Gevrey in size
NO grands crus, 27 premiers crus
Which villages share the hill of Corton?
Aloxe-Corton
Ladroix-Serrigny
Pernand-Vergelesses
Top PCs of Pernand-Vergelesses
3
En Caradeux
Cru de la Net
Ile de Vergelesses
top producers of Chambolle-Musigny
Georges de Vogüé
Barthod
Georges Roumier
Perrot-Minot
top producers of Nuits-St-Georges
Henri Gouges
Joseph Faiveley
Jean-Jacques Conferon
Dom. de Perdrix
Top Climats of Le Corton
8 Clos des Maréchaudes Bressandes Clos du Roi Renardes Charlemagne Chaumes Grèves Clos de la Vigne au Saint
Top PCs of Aloxe-Corton
7 Les Valozières Les Paulands Les Fournières Les Maréchaudes La Toppe au Vert Les Petites Lolières Les Chaillots
Charlemagne
Rarely used AOP reserved for whites only on hill of Corton
Top PCs of Savigny-les-Beaune
7 Aux Guettes Les Serpentières Les Marconnets Les Narbantons Les Lavières Aux Vergelesses La Dominode
Beaune
Seat of Burgundian wine industry
Home to Hospices de Beaune, Drouhin, Latour, Bouchard Père et Fils, Jadot
No GCs, 42 PCs
Top PCs of Ladroix-Serrigny
4 Les Buis La Corvée Hautes Mourottes Rognet et Corton
Corton-Charlemagne
AOP GC on hill of Corton for white wine only
top producers of Pommard
Comte Armand
Pommard styles
Reds only, most powerful in CdB
Villages west of Volnay & Meursault
Monthélie
Auxey-Duresses
St-Romain
Top PCs of Volnay
8 Taille Pieds Clos de la Bousse d'Or Le Cailleret Clos des 60 Ouvrées Clos des Ducs Les Santenots Clos des Chênes Champans
top producers of Volnay
d’Angerville
Hubert de Montille
Michel Lafarge
Premier Cru vineyards of St-Romain
There are none
Les Santenots
Premier cru vineyard of Volnay when planted to Pinot Noir
Premier cru vineyard of Meursault when planted to Chardonnay
Premier Cru vineyards of Auxey-Duresses
3
Les Duresses
Climat du Val
Les Grands Champs
Which villages in the Côte d’Or do not have any Premier Cru?
St-Romain
Chorey-les-Beaune
Premier Cru vineyards of Monthélie
5 Les Duresses Meix Bataille Champs Fuillot Les Riottes La Taupine
Meursault
No GC vineyards
Mostly whites, highly regarded
Longer oak aging in general
Many premier cru that approach GC quality
System of lieux-dits that appear on labels of Villages level wines
Top PCs of Meursault
7 Les Perrières Les Genevrières Les Santenots Les Charmes Le Poruzot Les Bouchères La Goutte d'Or
Blagny
Tiny hamlet shared by Meursault and Puligny
AOP for reds only
Meursault-Blagny for whites
top producers of Meursault
Coche-Dury
Guy Roulot
Comte Lafon
List the GC vineyards of Meursault.
There are none
Top premier cru vineyards of Puligny-Montrachet
10 Les Pucelles Les Damoiselles Clavoillon Champs Canet Les Referts Les Folatières Les Enseignières Les Truffières La Garenne Le Cailleret
top producers of Puligny-Montrachet
Domaine Leflaive
Louis Carillon
top producers of Chassagne-Montrachet
Ramonet
Top PCs of St-Aubin
4 Les Charmois En Remilly Les Murgers des Dents de Chien La Chatenières
Top premier cru vineyards of Chassagne-Montrachet
11 La Boudriotte Morgeot Clos St-Jean Les Vergers Les Chenevottes Clos de la Maltroie En Cailleret Les Ruchottes Vide Bourse Blanchots Dessus Dent de Chien
GCs of Chassagne-Montrachet
3
Le Montrachet
Bâtard- Montrachet
Criots-Bâtard-Montrachet
Villages that make up commune of Maranges
3
Cheilly
Dezize
Sampigny
GCs of Puligny-Montrachet
4 Le Montrachet Bâtard-Montrachet Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet Chevalier-Montrachet
Côte Chalonnaise location/styles
AKA Région de Mercurey
For White, Red & Rosé
In Saône-et-Loire dept. between Côte d’Or & Mâconnais
Villages of Côte Chalonnaise from N to S
5 Bouzeron Rully Mercurey Givry Montagny
Top PCs of Bouzeron
None. Only commune in Côte Chalonnaise that doesn’t permit 1re cru bottlings.
Top PCs of Santenay
5 Clos de Tavannes La Comme Les Gravières La Maladière Clos Rousseau
AOPs of Mâcon
7 Mâcon AOP Mâcon-Villages AOP Pouilly-Fuissé AOP Pouilly-Loché AOP Pouilly-Vinzelles AOP St-Véran AOP Viré-Clessé AOP
Top PCs of Maranges
4 Clos des Loyères La Fussière Clos des Rois Clos Roussots
Pouilly-Fuissé communes
4 Fuissé Solutré-Pouilly Chaintré Vergisson
Viré-Clessé communes
4 Clessé Viré Laizé Montbellet
Top premier cru of Rully in Côte Chalonnaise
3
Grésigny
Rabourcé
Les Cloux
Villages of St-Véran
2 in North: Davayé, Prissé 5 in South: Chânes Chasselas Leynes St-Amour St-Vérand
Top villages of Mâcon
10 Azé Chaintre Chânes Chardonnay Davayé Lugny La Roche Vineuse St-Amour-Bellevue Uchizy Igé
Cru of Beaujolais
From N to S: St-Amour Juliénas Moulin-a-Vent Chénas Fleurie Chiroubles Morgon Régnié Brouilly Côtes-de-Brouilly
St-Véran geographical situation
Overlaps Mâconnais & Beaujolais
Bisected by Pouilly-Fuissé
2 villages in north, 5 villages in south
Base yield for Cru Beaujolais
Decreased from 58 hl/ha to 56 hl/ha from 2011
Change to Burgundy AOP law from 2011
Maximum yields raised on nearly all village, premier & grand cru sites
Hand-harvesting made mandatory of monopole grand cru sites
Côte du Lyonnais
AOP south of Beaujolais for red/rosé from Gamay, white from Chardonnay, Aligoté, Pinot Blanc
AOPs of Mâcon for red & white wines
2
Mâcon
Mâcon-Villages
Beaujolais styles/cepage
white (Chardonnay
red/rosé (Gamay+bit of PN)
AOPs of Mâconnais for white wine only
5 Pouilly-Fuissé Pouilly-Loché Pouilly-Vinzelles St-Véran Viré-Clessé
1er crus of Chambolle-Musigny
8 Amoureuses Charmes Baudes Larrottes Fuées Cras Veroilles Combe d'Orveau
Top producers of Gevrey-Chambertin
Rousseau
Dugat
Fourvier
1er crus of Pernand-Vergelesses
3
En Caradeux
Cru de la Net
Île de Vergelesses
AOPs in Yonne dept.
7 Chitry Côtes d'Auxerre Coulanges-la-Vineuse Epineuil Tonnerre Côte-St-Jacques* Vézelay
1er crus of Maranges
4 Clos des Loyères La Fussière Clos des Rois Clos Roussots
Top PCs of Ladroix-Serrigny
4 Les Buis La Corvée Hautes Mourottes Rognet et Corton
Key climats of Corton
8 Clos des Maréchaudes Bressandes Clos du Roi Renardes Charlemagne Chaumes Grèves Clos de la Vigne au Saint
Lieux-dits of Marsannay
4 Longeroies Vaudenelles Champs-Perdrix Champs-Solomon
Chablis 1er crus
40 total, 17 main, 6 best: Montée de Tonnerre Côte de Léchet Faurchaume Montmains Mont de Milieu Vaillons
Les Beauregards Beauroy Berdiot Chaume de Talvat Côte de Jouan Côtes de Vaubarousse Les Fourneaux Vaucoupin Vau-de-Vey Vau Ligneau Vosgros
1er crus of Beaune
42 total, key PCs: Grèves Bressandes Teurons Avaux Clos du Roi Clos des Mouches Vigne l'Enfant Jésus Clos des Ursules
Meursault PCs
7 Perrières Genevrières Santenots Charmes Poruzet Bouchères Goutte d'Or
Which GCs of Vosne-Romanée are monopoles & of whom?
Romanée-Conti (DRC)
La Romanée (Liger-Belair)
La Tâche (DRC)
La Grande Rue (François Lamarche)
Meursault lieux-dits
4 Chevalières Narvaux Tillets Tessons
Top PCs in Givry
3
Clos Marceaux
Clos Salomon
Clos Jus
Top producers of Chassagne-Montrachet
Ramonet
PCs of Rully
3
Grésigny
Raboucé
Les Cloux
Monopole vineyards of Vosne-Romanée
GCs
DRC: La Tâche & Romanée-Conti
Liger-Belair: La Romanée
Dom. François Lamarche: La Grande Rue
PC - Michel Gros: Clos des Réas
Village - Anne-Françoise Gros: Clos de la Fontaine
Largest GC of Côte de Nuit
Clos de Vougeot
Lieux-dits of Fourchaume
Vaulorent (Dom. Fevre)
red grapes of Burgundy
Pinot Noir
Gamay
César (Yonne dept.)
Tressot (Yonne dept.)
Bourgogne AOP styles
Blanc Blanc Nouveau/Primeur Rosé (Clairet) Rouge Gamay