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BOURGOGNERegional appellation of Burgundy. The appellation BOURGOGNE is restricted to wines produced within a defined area of the appellation. Producing communes : Department of Yonne : 54 communes. Department of Côte-d’Or : 91 communes. Department of Saône-et-Loire : 154 communes. Light golden colour, limpid and crystalline, often with greenish highlights. In the Yonne, Bourgogne Blanc often develops aromas of gunflint or field mushroom. In the Côte-d'Or it is hazelnut with a hint of honey, butter, bracken, spices and sugared chesnuts. In the Saône-et-Loire notes of white flowers (hawthorn, acacia) and flint abound. On the palate it is aromatic, delicate but not over-light, full without being heavy, unctuous and firm, dry and caressing, well-rounded and quite deep, not overlystructured yet persistent. Bourgogne blanc is a success story. It brings out the best of the Chardonnay grape, now grown everywhere but whose native home is Burgundy and which finds here its most sublime expression (Montrachet, Meursault, Chablis, Corton-Charlemagne, Pouilly-Fuissé...). The controlled appellation BOURGOGNE, authorised in 1937, extends to the three departments of Yonne, Côte-d’Or and Saône-et-Loire. This entry-level wine opens the way to the village appellations, the Premiers Crus and the Grands Crus. Though the raw material is the same in all cases, the Chardonnay grape creates a diverse spectrum of sensations which vary according to its provenance, the age of the vines and the particular vintage. This wine is mostly grown on sites at the foot of the slopes but the nature of the soil varies according to each geographical situation. In the Côte-d'Or the soils are whitish or light grey marls and marly limestones, deep and not especially stony. The Yonne, in contrast, offers sloping calcareous sites, sometimes chalky as in the Tonnerrois district or on Kimmeridgian limestone as in Chablis and the Auxerrois, while in the Chalonnais and Mâconnais the broken landscape begets soils composed of limestone, clay and marl, plus, in the southern Saône-et-Loire, a granitic component. White wines - Chardonnay. The Chardonnay Grape (which makes up 46% of the total plantings in Burgundy) yields handsome bunches of small, golden, elongated grapes, rich in white, deliciously sweet juice. This famous grape variety gives birth to all of Burgundy's great white wines. The BOURGOGNE appellation is also applied to red and rosé wines. Area under production: 971.37 ha
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