BOURGOGNE COULANGES-LA-VINEUSE

Regional naming of the vineyard from Auxerre, in the Yonne. The name of COULANGES-LA-VINEUSE can be added to that of BURGUNDY only for red, pinkish and white wines produced inside the area bounded by the naming. Municipalities of production: Coulanges-la-Vineuse, Migé, Mouffy, Jussy, Escolives-Sainte-Camille, Val-de-Mercy. On the label, the mention COULANGES-LA-VINEUSE must be registered at once below the name BURGUNDY. Red Burgundy Coulanges-la-Vineuse arises from some pinot noir. Flexible and fruity, it is very pleasant during its first 3 or 4 years and wins to be tasted on the fruit. Certain older vintage wines go however as charms. Purple ruby, a wine where dominates the aroma of the cherry (the orchards of cherry trees are many here) but also of blackcurrant and strawberries. Its flavours are balanced well, with a beautiful curvature in mouth, without tannic excess and of a considerable length.In white (Chardonnay), a wine produces on the whole vineyard coulangeois. Clear gold, it declines aromas of white flowers in the mineral accents. Its freshness comes along with a light point of liveliness. It flows charmingly in mouth, as a spring water.
In rosé, a fruity wine in the intense aromas, stemming from some pinot noir.

The good was named, we can say about this vinous naming as one pleases! Country of wine, country without water. So much that during the big fire of 1676, which destroyed 170 houses and 22 presses, we made kick down all the barrels to calm the fire. And it is thanks to the tax on the wine that we reconstructed the church. We are here in Inhabitant of Auxerre in the department of the Yonne, at the top of the hill rounded off on the oriental hillside of a small pond which dominates the left bank of the Yonne.Coulanges-la-Vineuse and villages sharing its fate (Escolives-Sainte-Camille, Jussy, Migé, Mouffy and Val-de-Mercy) received in 1993 the right(law) to identify their wines within the naming Burgundy Coulanges-la-Vineuse (red, rosé, white). Did not we find on the Gallo-Roman site of Escolives-Sainte-Camille, very close, testimonies of the presence of the vineyard 20 centuries ago?

This vineyard is a part of the southeast fringe of the Paris Basin, planted in the halo extern of the Upper Jurassic (kimméridgien and portlandien), sometimes in the base of the Cretaceous.

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

Surfaces in production:
Whites: 19 ha
Red and rosés: 105 ha