Premier Cru (Burgundy)
Premier cru literally means "first growth" and describes a class of appellations in the Burgundy wine-growing region . Each of these appellations includes all of the correspondingly classified vineyards of the associated municipality. Most of these locations are on the tourist route des Grands Crus within the sub-regions of Côte de Beaune and Côte de Nuits .
In the hierarchy of the Burgundy vineyards, the Premier Crus are in second place after the Grand Crus . These include the Villages wines of the individual municipalities and the regional appellations Bourgogne (from Pinot Noir or Chardonnay), Bourgogne Aligoté and Bourgogne Passetoutgrain and Bourgogne (Grand) Ordinaire , which also includes Gamay . In between there are the more specific appellations Bourgogne Hautes Côtes de Beaune , Bourgogne Haute Côtes de Nuits , Bourgogne Côte Chalonnaise and Bourgogne Côtes d'Auxerre .
Appellation premier cru de Bourgogne Contrôlée
The Premiers Crus account for around 10% of Burgundy's production volume. The identification on the wine label is fixed. The community name is followed by the term Premier Cru and then optionally the name of the location. The label designation of the single layer Clos des Ormes in Morey-Saint-Denis is consequently Morey-Saint-Denis premier cru Clos des Ormes . In the same way, the wine could also be marketed as Morey Saint-Denis premier cru - alone or with products from other Premier Cru locations in the same municipality .
So far, a total of 562 locations in the Burgundy growing region have been defined as Premiers Crus . They are located in the following 28 municipalities:
- Aloxe-Corton , Auxey-Duresses , Beaune , Blagny , Chablis , Chambolle-Musigny , Chassagne-Montrachet , Fixin , Gevrey-Chambertin , Givry , Ladoix-Serrigny , Dezize-lès-Maranges , Mercurey , Meursault , Montagny , Monthelie , Morey- Saint-Denis , Nuits-Saint-Georges , Pernand-Vergelesses , Pommard , Puligny-Montrachet , Rully , Saint-Aubin , Santenay , Savigny-lès-Beaune , Volnay , Vosne-Romanée and Vougeot
List of Premier Cru vineyards in Burgundy
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literature
- Michel Mastrojanni: Le Grand Livre du Bourgogne . Éditions Solar, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-263-02181-7
- James Turnbull: Bourgogne Grandeur Nature . Les Éditions EPA, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-85120-524-2
- Pierre Galet : Cépages et Vignobles de France . Lavoisier Publishing House, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-7430-0585-8 .
- Benoît France: Grand Atlas des Vignobles de France . Éditions SOLAR publishing house, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-263-03242-8 .
- Jancis Robinson : The Oxford Wine Lexicon . Gräfe and Unzer Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7742-0914-6 .