Meursault

Meursault
region	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Department	Côte-d'Or
Arrondissement	Beaune
Canton	Ladoix-Serrigny
Community association	Beaune Cote et Sud
Coordinates	46 ° 59 ′  N , 4 ° 46 ′  E Coordinates: 46 ° 59 ′  N , 4 ° 46 ′  E
height	199-458 m
surface	16.22 km 2
Residents	1,425 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	88 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	21190
INSEE code	21412
Saint-Nicolas de Meursault church

Meursault is a commune and wine town in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in the Côte-d'Or department in France . The community has 1425 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017), is located at an altitude of 243 m above sea level and has an area of ​​1622 hectares . Meursault is about seven kilometers south of Beaune on the Paris – Marseille railway line and borders Puligny-Montrachet and Blagny to the south and Monthelie to the northwest and Volnay to the north . Meursault is part of the Côte de Beaune . The inhabitants are called Murisaltiens .

The first written mention as a wine village can be found in a deed of donation from the year 1098 from Duke Odo I to the Cîteaux monastery .

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2007	2016
Residents	1869	1831	1733	1645	1538	1598	1563	1442
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Meursault wine region

Some of France's greatest white wines are grown in Meursault. The Meursault appellation ( Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée since May 21, 1970) has 18 Premier Cru sites. White wines made from the Chardonnay grape are grown almost exclusively . The yield is limited to 45 hectoliters / hectare for the normal local appellation. Exceptions allow the yield to be a maximum of 20% higher. The average harvest is around 17340 hl / year (of which Premier Cru: 4501 hl), which is harvested on an area of ​​449.69 hectares. In addition, around 418 hl (including 65 hl Premier Cru) red wine are produced.

The minimum alcohol content is 11% for the white wine and 10.5% for the red wine. In the case of artificial enrichment with dry sugar ( chaptalization ), a maximum alcohol content is specified, which is 13.5%. In the case of a Premier Cru location, the minimum alcohol content for white wine is 11.5%, 11% for red wine and the maximum is 14%.

Meursault Premier Cru appellation

The Premier Cru sites (total of 133.63 hectares) are:

Les Cras, Les Caillerets, Les Santenots Blancs, Les Plures, Les Santenots du Milieu, Charmes, La Jeunelotte ou Blagny, La Pièce Sous le Bois ou Blagny, Sous le dos D'âne ou Blagny, Sous Blagny ou Blagny, Les Perrières, Clos des Perrières, Les Genevrières, Poruzots, Le Poruzot, Les Bouchères, Les Gouttes d'Or, Les Ravelles ou Blagny.

Media references

In the novel The Stranger by Albert Camus is about a young French Algerians called Meursault , who happened to shoot a young Arabs and provoked his own death warrant in the subsequent trial against him. The name Meursault may mean “meurs, sot!”, In German “die, du Tor!”. Much later, in 2013, the Algerian Kamel Daoud published a novel Meursault, contre-enquête as "Hommage en forme de contrepoint" with reference to Camus .

In 1966 Gerard Oury shot part of the film Drei Bruchpiloten in Paris , also: “The Big Sause” (La grande vadrouille) in Meursault.

Web links

Commons : Meursault  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

• Laure Gasparotto: Meursault 2000 . Ed .: Office de Tourisme du Meursault. 2000, ISBN 2-9515146-0-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pitiot, Sylvain; Servant, Jean-Charles: Les vins de Bourgogne . 15th edition. Collection Pierre Poupon, 2014, ISBN 978-2-9513731-7-4 , pp. 232 .
2. ↑ Kamel Daoud: Meursault, contre-enquête. Actes Sud, Arles 2014, ISBN 978-2-330-03372-9 . (German: The Meursault case. A reply. Translated from Claus Josten. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-462-04798-1 )