BOURGOGNE CÔTE SAINT-JACQUES

Regional naming of the vineyard of Jovinien, in the Yonne. The name of COTE SAINT-JACQUES can be added to that of BURGUNDY only for red or grey, pinkish and white wines produced inside the area bounded by the naming. Municipality of production: Joigny. On the label, the mention COTE SAINT-JACQUES must be registered at once below the name BURGUNDY. This beautiful hillside was formerly planted in pinot noir, pinot gris and tressot, with a little grocer (meslier, meshes) and of cot (malbec, inhabitant of Bordeaux says plantation of king).
The grey wine saved it from the anonymity. Because if we produce of Burgundy Cote Saint Jacques in red (pinot noir) and in white (Chardonnay) today, we still find some rosé (pinot noir) and especially the famous grey wine (pinot gris says beurot in Côte-d'Or). Pressed before the departure in fermentation eye of partridge, it has the pink cheeks. Little acid, flowering, is pleasant and slammed the language(tongue).

The most northern vineyard of the Burgundy, the first one by coming from Paris, the Cote Saint Jacques to Joigny belongs quite at once to the history of the wine and to that of the gastronomy. One of the best restaurants of France carries here the name of this wine coast. Covering 2 000 ha in the XIXth century, the jovinien vineyard saw disappearing little by little its plots of land, until become a " sentimental wine ": that of the happy memory. But wine growers' handle knew how to restore life in its most remarkable climate: the Cote Saint Jacques. Hillsides, exposed to the South, southeast overhang the valley and the city of Joigny and are protected from the North wind by the tray of the forest of Othe. In their feet, the river Yonne creates a microclimate which allows to avoid often, spring frosts.

Between Auxerre and Sense, the Coast Saint Jacques dominates Joigny and the river Yonne. It is implanted on a chalky spur (basement of the turonien) covered with clay with flint in the forest of Othe.

Red wines and grey, pinot noir and pinot gris grape variety.
White wines, Chardonnay grape variety.

Surfaces in production:
Red and rosés: 12,28 ha
Whites: 0,16 ha