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Burgundy 's vineyards cover some 370 kilometers, from Auxerre to near Lyon, and are made up of four departments:

  1. Yonne in which the Chablisregion is located.
  2. Côte d'Or composed of the Côte de Nuits and Côte de Beaune regions.
  3. Saone-et-Loire includes the Côte Chalonnaise and Maconnais regions.
  4. Rhône where the Beaujolais region is located.

Burgundy is one of the regions of France where the best vineyards are located. The most important area of Burgundy by far is the Côte d'Or. It is divided by the departments of the Côte de Nuits, to the north, and by the Côte de Beaune, to the south, where the Chardonnay and Pinot Noirvarieties are grown exclusively.

We should not forget the Chardonnay white wines from Chablis, the red and white wines from Côte Chalonnaise and the white wines from Mâcon, as they are part of Burgundy. South of Mâcon we find the Beaujolais department with different soils, styles and types of grapes.

To speak of Burgundy is to speak of simplicity and rusticity; unlike Bordeaux, in Burgundy there are no large estates or castles. The vast majority of the land was divided by Napoleon, being fragmented into small holdings of no more than 6 hectares per owner. Thus, a particular vineyard (Climat) can have seven owners, which generates a diversity of styles depending on the year, the vintage, the work in the vineyard, the vinifications.... At the same time a vigneron can own eight hectares spread throughout Burgundy and produce wines from different appellations.

In Burgundy there are approximately one hundred AOCs (appellations d'origine), most of which refer to specific villages. However, there are also regional appellations such as Bourgogne Blanc, Bourgogne Rouge, Bourgogne Grand Ordinaire and Bourgogne Passetoutgrains that encompass all wines made from grapes grown in any corner of Burgundy, even in famous communes where the soil is declassified for the production of communal appellation wines.

But... How does the classification of appellations work in Burgundy?

Unlike Bordeaux, in Burgundy the classification system for appellations d'origine contrôlée is somewhat more complex. Below we can see the hierarchical structure for the following appellations:

  • AOC Régionales brings together red, rosé, white and sparkling wines made from the red varieties Pinot Noir, Gamay and white varieties Chardonnay, Aligoté, Pinot Blanc and Melon. The regional appellations are AOC Bourgogne, AOC Bourgogne Passetoutgrain, AOC Bourgogne Aligoté, AOC Bourgogne Grand Ordinaire and AOC Crémant de Bourgogne.
  • Subregional AOCs include the appellations found in certain communes of the Côte d'Or such as AOC Bourgogne Hautes Côtes de Nuits, AOC Côte Nuits Villages, AOC Bourgogne Hautes Côtes de Beaune and AOC Côte de Beaune Villages. Only reds, rosés and whites are made from Pinot Noir and Chardonnay varieties.
  • AOC Communal includes red and white wines, which clearly display on the label the name of the commune where they are produced. In this section there are as many appellations as there are villages. Some examples are AOC Chablis, AOC Fixin, AOC Gevrey Chambertin, AOC Morey-Saint-Denis, AOC Chambolle Musigny, AOC Vougeot, AOC Flagey-Échézeaux, AOC Vosne-Romanée, AOC Nuits-Saint-Georges, AOC Aloxe-Corton, AOC Pernand-Vergelesses, AOC Savigny-les-Beaune, AOC Chorey-les-Beaune, AOC Beaune, AOC Pommard, AOC Volnay, AOC Monthelie, AOC Auxey-Duresses, AOC Saint-Romain, AOC Puligny-Montrachet, AOC Meursault, AOC Chassagne-Montrachet, etc.
  • AOC Premiers Crus brings together those plots that have a special mention due to the type of soil and the orientation of the vineyard. Throughout the various municipalities we find sectors that have this Premier Cru mention, so the label should include the name of the village + the Premier Cru designation and then the name of the vineyard (if it has one). Some examples are AOC Chablis Premier Cru Montée Tonerre, AOC Gevrey Chambertin Premier Cru Champeaux, AOC Chambolle Musigny Premier Cru Les Amoureuses, etc. In total, the Burgundy region is home to 539 Premier Cruappellations.
  • AOC Grands Crus exclusively for certain plots of vineyards in the Côte d'Or. These are small plots, with slight slopes and oriented to the east (morning sun), in order to have more hours of sunshine and avoid frost. All of them are located on the left side of the national highway in the direction of Dijon-Paris. The depth of the soils sometimes does not reach 30-40 centimeters, the roots clinging to the bedrock for good drainage. The age of the vines ranges from 70 to 90 years for the Grands Crus, with minimum yields of 3500 liters/hectare. Sometimes the plots are separated by a simple boundary, and the wines produced are totally different depending on the characteristics of the soil and the greater or lesser content of gravel, lime and clay. There are only 32 Grand Cru labeled appellations in Burgundy and they must express on the label only the name of the Grand Cru estate, such as AOC Chambertin-Clos de Bèze, AOC Bonnes-Mares, AOC Clos Vougeot, AOC Romanée-Conti, AOC Bâtard-Montrachet, etc. Please note that not all communes have appellations with this classification.

And what is the mythical terroir of Burgundylike?

There are several factors that condition the character and taste of a wine, such as variety, viticulture, grape maturity, vinification and climate, but the most important is the piece of land where the winegrower plants his vines. The soil is a determining factor; the orientation, the drainage, whether it is well protected, the composition... a structure that human beings will never be able to change.

Here, the bedrock makes the difference between a great wine and a mediocre one, which is why some vines can produce excellent wines while others never will. The Côte d'Or consists of a 40-kilometer southeast-facing slope where, in the middle of the slope, all the physical characteristics of the right place are found in a soil and subsoil with unbeatable characteristics to produce a great wine. This is what in the language of winemakers is known as terroir, where just a few meters away, down or sideways, we can find completely different wines with different vineyard names. It is for this reason that in Burgundy there are 539 premiers crus and 32 grands crus, some of which are small extensions.

Geologically, Burgundy is very complex. During the time of the dinosaurs, in the Jurassic period 135 million years ago, what is now Burgundy was a sea. A sea in which fish, oysters, mollusks and sea urchins coexisted and, as a result, today we find a soil rich in marine fossils. Clay, sand and gravel were formed by the decomposition and erosion of soils, combined with calcium carbonate from seawater. At the same time, another type of rock was formed due to the precipitation of lime carbonate from the sea, thus originating the precious limestone.

The Côte d'Or is purely limestone, although with different types depending on its thickness, color, hardness, permeability and varying clay content. It is not unusual to find different types of subsoil in a distance of only 50 meters, so the character of the bedrock changes abruptly as you descend from the top of the slope to the road.

Just as important is the bedrock as the ground surface. The soil is a decomposed mixture of limestone debris, rocks and stones, gravels of various sizes, sands, and accumulations of clay. Generally speaking, there is more clay, more nitrogenous matter and poorer drainage at the beginning of the slope. As we go up the slope, the surface is less clayey and limestone outcrops.

What about the climate in Burgundy?

The climate in Burgundy is clearly continental, although in terms of hours of sunshine, rainfall, relative humidity and average temperature, the climate is quite similar to that of Bordeaux.

The Côte d'Or is drier, mainly in the summer months, than the Côte Chalonnaise and Mâcon, but storms with hail are common. During the spring the climate is dry, but the months of May and June are cool and wet, which does not favor flowering. However, the months of September and October are dry, which prevents rotting during the grape harvests. In summer the days are long and sunny, which favors ripening (daylight hours are more important than high temperatures for good ripening).
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Buy Wine from region Burgundy

Burgundy 's vineyards cover some 370 kilometers, from Auxerre to near Lyon, and are made up of four departments:

  1. Yonne in which the Chablisregion is located.
  2. Côte d'Or composed of the Côte de Nuits and Côte de Beaune regions.
  3. Saone-et-Loire includes the Côte Chalonnaise and Maconnais regions.
  4. Rhône where the Beaujolais region is located.

Burgundy is one of the regions of France where the best vineyards are located. The most important area of Burgundy by far is the Côte d'Or. It is divided by the departments of the Côte de Nuits, to the north, and by the Côte de Beaune, to the south, where the Chardonnay and Pinot Noirvarieties are grown exclusively.

We should not forget the Chardonnay white wines from Chablis, the red and white wines from Côte Chalonnaise and the white wines from Mâcon, as they are part of Burgundy. South of Mâcon we find the Beaujolais department with different soils, styles and types of grapes.

To speak of Burgundy is to speak of simplicity and rusticity; unlike Bordeaux, in Burgundy there are no large estates or castles. The vast majority of the land was divided by Napoleon, being fragmented into small holdings of no more than 6 hectares per owner. Thus, a particular vineyard (Climat) can have seven owners, which generates a diversity of styles depending on the year, the vintage, the work in the vineyard, the vinifications.... At the same time a vigneron can own eight hectares spread throughout Burgundy and produce wines from different appellations.

In Burgundy there are approximately one hundred AOCs (appellations d'origine), most of which refer to specific villages. However, there are also regional appellations such as Bourgogne Blanc, Bourgogne Rouge, Bourgogne Grand Ordinaire and Bourgogne Passetoutgrains that encompass all wines made from grapes grown in any corner of Burgundy, even in famous communes where the soil is declassified for the production of communal appellation wines.

But... How does the classification of appellations work in Burgundy?

Unlike Bordeaux, in Burgundy the classification system for appellations d'origine contrôlée is somewhat more complex. Below we can see the hierarchical structure for the following appellations:

  • AOC Régionales brings together red, rosé, white and sparkling wines made from the red varieties Pinot Noir, Gamay and white varieties Chardonnay, Aligoté, Pinot Blanc and Melon. The regional appellations are AOC Bourgogne, AOC Bourgogne Passetoutgrain, AOC Bourgogne Aligoté, AOC Bourgogne Grand Ordinaire and AOC Crémant de Bourgogne.
  • Subregional AOCs include the appellations found in certain communes of the Côte d'Or such as AOC Bourgogne Hautes Côtes de Nuits, AOC Côte Nuits Villages, AOC Bourgogne Hautes Côtes de Beaune and AOC Côte de Beaune Villages. Only reds, rosés and whites are made from Pinot Noir and Chardonnay varieties.
  • AOC Communal includes red and white wines, which clearly display on the label the name of the commune where they are produced. In this section there are as many appellations as there are villages. Some examples are AOC Chablis, AOC Fixin, AOC Gevrey Chambertin, AOC Morey-Saint-Denis, AOC Chambolle Musigny, AOC Vougeot, AOC Flagey-Échézeaux, AOC Vosne-Romanée, AOC Nuits-Saint-Georges, AOC Aloxe-Corton, AOC Pernand-Vergelesses, AOC Savigny-les-Beaune, AOC Chorey-les-Beaune, AOC Beaune, AOC Pommard, AOC Volnay, AOC Monthelie, AOC Auxey-Duresses, AOC Saint-Romain, AOC Puligny-Montrachet, AOC Meursault, AOC Chassagne-Montrachet, etc.
  • AOC Premiers Crus brings together those plots that have a special mention due to the type of soil and the orientation of the vineyard. Throughout the various municipalities we find sectors that have this Premier Cru mention, so the label should include the name of the village + the Premier Cru designation and then the name of the vineyard (if it has one). Some examples are AOC Chablis Premier Cru Montée Tonerre, AOC Gevrey Chambertin Premier Cru Champeaux, AOC Chambolle Musigny Premier Cru Les Amoureuses, etc. In total, the Burgundy region is home to 539 Premier Cruappellations.
  • AOC Grands Crus exclusively for certain plots of vineyards in the Côte d'Or. These are small plots, with slight slopes and oriented to the east (morning sun), in order to have more hours of sunshine and avoid frost. All of them are located on the left side of the national highway in the direction of Dijon-Paris. The depth of the soils sometimes does not reach 30-40 centimeters, the roots clinging to the bedrock for good drainage. The age of the vines ranges from 70 to 90 years for the Grands Crus, with minimum yields of 3500 liters/hectare. Sometimes the plots are separated by a simple boundary, and the wines produced are totally different depending on the characteristics of the soil and the greater or lesser content of gravel, lime and clay. There are only 32 Grand Cru labeled appellations in Burgundy and they must express on the label only the name of the Grand Cru estate, such as AOC Chambertin-Clos de Bèze, AOC Bonnes-Mares, AOC Clos Vougeot, AOC Romanée-Conti, AOC Bâtard-Montrachet, etc. Please note that not all communes have appellations with this classification.

And what is the mythical terroir of Burgundylike?

There are several factors that condition the character and taste of a wine, such as variety, viticulture, grape maturity, vinification and climate, but the most important is the piece of land where the winegrower plants his vines. The soil is a determining factor; the orientation, the drainage, whether it is well protected, the composition... a structure that human beings will never be able to change.

Here, the bedrock makes the difference between a great wine and a mediocre one, which is why some vines can produce excellent wines while others never will. The Côte d'Or consists of a 40-kilometer southeast-facing slope where, in the middle of the slope, all the physical characteristics of the right place are found in a soil and subsoil with unbeatable characteristics to produce a great wine. This is what in the language of winemakers is known as terroir, where just a few meters away, down or sideways, we can find completely different wines with different vineyard names. It is for this reason that in Burgundy there are 539 premiers crus and 32 grands crus, some of which are small extensions.

Geologically, Burgundy is very complex. During the time of the dinosaurs, in the Jurassic period 135 million years ago, what is now Burgundy was a sea. A sea in which fish, oysters, mollusks and sea urchins coexisted and, as a result, today we find a soil rich in marine fossils. Clay, sand and gravel were formed by the decomposition and erosion of soils, combined with calcium carbonate from seawater. At the same time, another type of rock was formed due to the precipitation of lime carbonate from the sea, thus originating the precious limestone.

The Côte d'Or is purely limestone, although with different types depending on its thickness, color, hardness, permeability and varying clay content. It is not unusual to find different types of subsoil in a distance of only 50 meters, so the character of the bedrock changes abruptly as you descend from the top of the slope to the road.

Just as important is the bedrock as the ground surface. The soil is a decomposed mixture of limestone debris, rocks and stones, gravels of various sizes, sands, and accumulations of clay. Generally speaking, there is more clay, more nitrogenous matter and poorer drainage at the beginning of the slope. As we go up the slope, the surface is less clayey and limestone outcrops.

What about the climate in Burgundy?

The climate in Burgundy is clearly continental, although in terms of hours of sunshine, rainfall, relative humidity and average temperature, the climate is quite similar to that of Bordeaux.

The Côte d'Or is drier, mainly in the summer months, than the Côte Chalonnaise and Mâcon, but storms with hail are common. During the spring the climate is dry, but the months of May and June are cool and wet, which does not favor flowering. However, the months of September and October are dry, which prevents rotting during the grape harvests. In summer the days are long and sunny, which favors ripening (daylight hours are more important than high temperatures for good ripening).