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Burgundy
Burgundy (Bourgogne) is a comparatively small, cool, northerly wine region in northeastern France that makes some of the world's most sought-after, expensive and exquisite wines — just over 66,000 acres (26,700 hectares) of vines, roughly a quarter the size of Bordeaux.
Two grapes dominate: virtually all top white Burgundy is CHARDONNAY and virtually all top red Burgundy is PINOT NOIR, each grown unblended because both reach their greatest elegance in a cool climate — and Burgundy is the coolest, most northern of the world's great red-wine regions, giving reds that are intensely flavored yet light to medium in body with a gossamer gracefulness.
Above all Burgundy is a study in TERROIR: over centuries Benedictine and Cistercian monks delineated the vineyards plot by plot, establishing terroir as the core of viticulture.
Key grapes
- Chardonnay
- Gamay
- Pinot Noir
- climate
- cool, northern (coolest of the great red-wine regions)
- defining idea
- terroir — vineyards defined by site, not ownership; the climat (a single named vineyard/parcel) is the true unit
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