terroir: the soul of la côte d’or, côte de beaune
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Don Kinnan, CSS, CWE, and the lead instructor for the French Wine Society’s new Master Burgundy Certificate program presents an incredible in-depth seminar on the wines, soils, climate and history of the Côte d’Or.TRANSCRIPT
La Cote d’Or
Côte de Beaune 18 miles long Production:
1.9 million cases 71% Pinot Noir 29% Chardonnay
Origin of the world’s most famous Chardonnay wines
Includes seven of the nine white Grands Crus
Welcome to Beaune
Wine nerve center of Burgundy, population 22,000, a walled fortress town.
Cote d’Or’s third largest wine commune, after Gevrey-Chambertin and Meursault.
42 Premiers Crus, no Grands Crus.
Home of the Hospices de Beaune.
Soil variation on the Beaune slope is not extreme and exposures are similar.
Wine styles vary in a much narrower vein.
A broad definition of Beaune wine style would be plump, succulent, fruity, with a rich grapey quality.
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Vineyards: (Reds) 897 ac, incl 694 ac 1er Crus
(Whites) 121 ac, incl 89 ac 1er Crus
Wines: (Reds) 150,444 cs, incl 114,689 cs 1er Crus (Whites) 26,333 cs, incl 19,555 cs 1er
NOTE: 76% is Premier Cru, 15 % is white wine.
Beaune Couchereaux, Ursules, Boucherottes
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KEY Village
Derrière St.-Jean
En Moigelot
28 Premiers Crus, only red wines produced.
Ranks 3d in red wine production among the vi l lages of the Côte de Beaune .
Vineyard has a high % of active l imestone interacting with its clays. Electro-magnetic proper ties of the clays are similar to those of the Côte de Nuits.
Vines: 795 ac, incl 301 ac Premiers Crus
Wines: 142,889 cs, incl 49,778 cs 1er Crus
No Grands Crus.
Red wines only.
The Volnay slope is steeper, more rocky, and the soil is redder in color. Lower down, in Rugiens Bas, the subsoil is Argovian limestone, covered with a thick band of marly, calcareous debris.
Further down, the marl is mixed with an iron-rich oolite, becoming more clayey.
Pommard Rugiens, Pommard Commaraine
Knights of Malta own vineyards in AD 1207.
Philip the Bold owns Caillerets and drank Volnay wine at his coronation in AD 1328.
Louis XI siphons entire 1447 vintage into his personal cellar.
Louis XIV (the Sun King) records himself as “amateur of Volnay”.
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Volnay Clos de la Barre
Volnay Clos des Chênes
Vines: 511 ac, incl 291 ac of 29 Premiers Crus
Wines: 97,444 cs, incl 54,722 cs of 1er Crus
Vintage 2006 Vintage 2006
18 miles long
Production:
2 million cases57% Red Wine43% White
Wine
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La Jaquelotte ou Champ Canet
Puligny-Montrachet: Four Grands Crus Whites
Burgundy
Major districts: Côte de Beaune, continued
Le Montrachet
Vines:
Whites - 511.3 ac, incl 239.6 ac 1er Crus
Red - 3.1 ac, incl 0.67 ac 1er Crus
Wines:
White - 122,389 cs, incl 54,333 cs 1er Crus
Red - 1144 cs, incl 411 cs 1er Crus
Puligy Folatières, Clos de la Garenne, Combettes, Referts
Burgundy
Fermentation Room Maison Louis Jadot
Jacques LARDIERE, Jacques LARDIERE, Former Technical Director, Maison Louis JadotFormer Technical Director, Maison Louis Jadot