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Appellation

Chassagne-Montrachet

Identity card

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Burgundy › Côte de Beaune · Recognised on 31 July 1937

  1. Grand cru
  2. Premier cru
  3. Village
  4. Regional

Key points

  1. Grown in Chassagne-Montrachet (Côte-d'Or) and Remigny (Saône-et-Loire).
  2. About 300 ha (2008), 170 ha of them classified premier cru.
  3. White premier cru: at most 55 hl/ha and at least 11.5% natural alcohol.

Grape varieties

White

Allowed varieties

ChardonnayPinot Blanc

Red

Pinot Noir

Allowed as a small share of the red wine: Chardonnay, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris (15% at most of the vines in each plot)

Only interplanted among the vines

Production rules

  • 9,000

    vines/ha

    Minimum planting density

Minimum ageing: At least until 15 June after the harvest

Terroir

  • Lie of the land: A Côte front split by a broad, almost dry valley
  • Soils: Chassagne limestone, marl and "Dalle nacrée"
  • Soils: A wide piedmont of free-draining, moderately fertile soils

Wine style

Boundaries: INAO, AOC vineyard plot delimitation (September 2026 edition) · Open Licence

Within this appellation

A Côte de Beaune village that shares two grands crus of the Montrachet family with neighbouring Puligny — Montrachet and Bâtard-Montrachet — and holds a third, Criots-Bâtard-Montrachet, to itself. The village appellation, which spills over into Remigny in Saône-et-Loire, makes both colours: on average nearly 10,400 hectolitres of white and 5,300 of red a year, from some 300 hectares in 2008, 170 of them premier cru.

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