BOURGOGNE CÔTE CHALONNAISE

Regional naming of Burgundy. The name of COTE CHALONNAISE can be added to that of BURGUNDY only for red, pinkish and white wines produced inside 44 municipalities distributed on the cantons of Buxy, Chagny, Givry and Mont-Saint-Vincent. On the label, the mention COTE CHALONNAISE must be registered at once below the name BURGUNDY. In red (pinot noir), a clear, frank and purple color or brilliant ruby, sometimes firing at the dark garnet. The small red berries (strawberry, currant) and blacks (blackcurrant, blueberry) are for the party and sometimes distinguish themselves from notes of cherry stone. The animal, the mushroom do not surprise. In mouth, it occupies the ground. Its texture is firm, a little bit austere in its first youth but he(it) has some breath and its curvature knows how to level its harshness. Acidity and tannins get along well. Tiny production of rosé or light red wine (pinot noir).In white (Chardonnay), the complexion is clear, illuminated with grey golden reflections. White flowers (hawthorn, honeysuckle), dried fruits on lemony and sometimes aniseed notes, suggesting the warm croissant, the honey. Fat and of good behaviour, the subject is mastered well. It has a heart attack lively and frank, with what it is necessary of delicacy.

To distinguish the regional naming Burgundy according to its countries allows to guide the amateur in its choice by indicating him a geographical origin. Established in 1990, the naming Burgundy Cote Chalonnaise recognizes the personality of 44 municipalities situated in the North of Saône-et-Loire on about forty kilometers in length and from 5 to 8 width. Wines exactly estimated since Grégoire of Tours in the VIth century. Important city of fairs and markets, active port on the tributary of the Rhône, Chalon sur Saône offers them its patronage.

Between the valleys of Dheune and Grosne, the Cote Chalonnaise opens on the South. It is a landscape less rigorous than that of the Côte-d'Or. These soft hills arose from the Massif Central, just like that from the shoulder, when the bressan ditch collapsed, training here faults. In the North, the grounds and reliefs exposed to the east are sharply calcareous. There, level cote of bound and of sorted out (Saint-Denis, Jambles, Moroges). In the South of the granitic block of Bissey, hillsides tilt in the East or on the West up to the mounts of Mâconnais.
Surmounted by the ledge limestone of the bajocien, they are marly. Piedmont is covered with sands and with clays in chailles or flint, with emergences of stoneware.
Between 250 and 350 meters in height.

Red wines and rosés, pinot noir grape variety.
White wines, vine Chardonnay grape variety.

Surfaces in production:
Red and rosés: 341,37 ha
Whites: 113,01 ha