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BOUZERON


Only municipal Naming of wines stemming from aligote vine of Chalonnaise, in Saône-et-loire. One of five naming of Côte Chalonnaise, and the closest to Côte-d'Or. Created by the decree of naming of February 17th, 1998, this municipal naming replaces the former regional naming Burgundy Aligote Bouzeron.
Municipalities of production: Bouzeron and Chassey-le-Camp. This white wine has a pale, slightly sea green golden dress, which can be colored until straw clearly. Its nose evokes the locust tree, the white flowers and this small road lined with hazelnuts which sang Mireille. The mineral aromas (flint, flint) complete, with the lemon, its classic bouquet.
A key of honey, sometimes, but with discretion on a note of warm croissant. In mouth, its sharp curvature, its robust body, its greedy liveliness reveals the typicity of vine. Some nuances appear according to countries.

 

Recognized in full 1997 within the municipal naming of Burgundy, the protected designation of origin Bouzeron honors the vine which made its fame: the aligote. It succeeds particularly well in Burgundy and contributes besides in Burgundy Aligote. Very asserted here, his personality is exactly distinguished.
In Côte Chalonnaise, in the North of Saône-et-Loire, separated from Santenay by the valley of Dheune, this village of hillsides is quite close to Rully and to Chassagne-Montrachet. It knows an active life from time immemorial: the site did not give its name to a civilization of the prehistory.

 

Bouzeron, AOC(PROTECTED DESIGNATION OF ORIGIN) Village, is exclusively cultivated at the top of hillsides on grounds consisted of white marl with dominant limestone, what, bound to a size said in tumbler, allows to master at best the returns and to propose a wine typical and attached to its particular country low. Below hillsindes are used to cultivate the Chardonnay and the pinot noir, wines of which are marketed under the AOC (PROTECTED DESIGNATION OF ORIGIN) "Burgundy Côte Chalonnaise". The aligote fell in love with this country situated between 270 and 350 meters in height. The high part rests on white marls (oxfordien, first floor of the Upper Jurassic). These hillsides also carry limestones of the bathonien, brown and marly. Grounds are generally thin and sloping. The exhibition: southeast is and certain climates (localities attached to a particular country) are exactly appreciated.

 

White wines exclusively, aligote vine. The aligote (6 % of the Burgundian encépagement) is a very former plantation in Burgundy. This rather strong white vine carries grapes a little bigger and more numerous than those some Chardonnay. "The Aligote vine" arises from a crossing between the Pinot noir and the Gouais (Gallic vine) today disappeared. Aligote cultivated to Bouzeron is said gilded: when grapes mature under the influence of the sun, the skin finer than traditional aligote produced on the rest of the Burgundy, takes a golden tint and especially allows a balance in the ripening between the alcohol and the acid".

 

Surface in production: 51,44 ha
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