Bourgueil
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| region | Center-Val de Loire | |
| Department | Indre-et-Loire | |
| Arrondissement | Quinone | |
| Canton | Langeais | |
| Community association | Touraine Ouest Val de Loire | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 17 ′ N , 0 ° 10 ′ E | |
| height | 28-117 m | |
| surface | 32.95 km 2 | |
| Residents | 3,923 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 119 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 37140 | |
| INSEE code | 37031 | |
Bourgueil is a French municipality with 3923 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Indre-et-Loire in the region of Center-Val de Loire . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Chinon and the Canton of Langeais .
geography
The small town is about 40 kilometers west of Tours and about four kilometers north of the Loire on the banks of the Changeon River . The municipality is part of the Loire-Anjou-Touraine Regional Nature Park .
history
In 990 Emma, daughter of the Count of Blois , Theobald I founded an important Benedictine monastery , which was known for the cultivation of Mediterranean plants from the ancestral monastery in Italy such as olive trees, oranges and pomegranates. The monastery was destroyed during the French Revolution .
Viticulture
The municipality gives its name to the wine-growing region of the same name with the status of an AOC (since July 31, 1937). On a vineyard area of 1368 hectares, covering the eight municipalities of Benais , Bourgueil, Chouzé-sur-Loire , Ingrandes-de-Touraine , La Chapelle-sur-Loire , Restigné , Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil and Saint-Patrice north the Loire, in the western part of the Touraine region , a sub-area of the Loire wine-growing region, almost exclusively red wine from the Cabernet Franc grape variety is grown. The use of the Cabernet Sauvignon variety is also permitted up to a maximum of ten percent . The legal yield is limited to 55 hl / ha, but can be increased up to 67 hl / ha in bad wine years.
Similar to the wines from Chinon , a wine town about ten kilometers south of the Loire, the local wines are also quite tannic . Especially when the grapes grow on slopes on tuff rock , the wines made from them can be expanded in good years and have a long shelf life. This applies in particular to those born in 1976, 1989 and 1990. In contrast, plants that thrive on sand and gravel produce only medium-heavy, but fruity wines.
In 2002, 69,500 hl of red wine and a few hundred hectoliters of rosé wine were produced . The few white wines are not subject to the AOC regulations.
The local wines were praised by the writers Pierre de Ronsard and François Rabelais .
Personalities
- Moyse Amyraut (1596–1664), important theologian
- Jean Carmet (1920–1994), actor
Town twinning
- Reimlingen , Swabia since 1975
- Breganze , Veneto since 2001
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes d'Indre-et-Loire. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-115-5 , pp. 250-262.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Philibert Schmitz: History of the Benedictine order. Translated into German and ed. by Dr. P. Ludwig Räber. 2 volumes, Zurich 1948, p. 193.