Appellation
Puligny-Montrachet
Identity card
VillageAOPWhiteRed
Burgundy › Côte de Beaune · Recognised on 31 July 1937
- Grand cru
- Premier cru
- Village
- Regional
Key points
- Pinot Noir covers just 1% of the area (2011 text).
- White premier cru: at most 55 hl/ha and at least 11.5% natural alcohol.
- On the Puligny side, Blagny-area whites may carry this name.
Grape varieties
Red
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
- Minimum planting density
- The fewest vines allowed per hectare. For the same yield, more vines means fewer grapes on each. For reference: 4,000 vines/ha to 9,000 vines/ha across 136 Oenopia appellations of the same colour.
- Minimum ageing
- A minimum ageing period the specification requires before the wine may be sold to consumers.
Terroir
- Lie of the land: A Côte front about 200 m high, heavily faulted
- Soils: Alternating Jurassic limestone and marl
- Soils: A broad piedmont on clayey, gravelly outwash
Wine style
- White
- Honey
- pale yellow, green tints
- lemongrass, fern
- restrained acidity
- Red
- Strawberry
- Blackcurrant
- fruity, fairly supple
Boundaries: INAO, AOC vineyard plot delimitation (September 2026 edition) · Open Licence
Within this appellation
Specification
12 October 2011
Décret n° 2011-1298 du 12 octobre 2011 relatif à l'appellation d'origine contrôlée « Puligny-Montrachet » (JORF n°0239 du 14 octobre 2011, page 17338, texte n°31). Aucun arrêté de refonte plus récent identifié lors d'une recherche ciblée du 2026-09-28. Appellation initialement reconnue par décret du 31 juillet 1937.
Labelling terms
- "Premier cru" and/or the name of one of 17 listed climats
- Red: "Côte de Beaune" may follow the name
Nearby appellations
Sources
- Official sourceDécret n° 2011-1298 du 12 octobre 2011 relatif à l'AOC « Puligny-Montrachet »— Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité (INAO)
- Official sourceCahiers des charges d'AOC publiés au BO-AGRI (décrets du 12 octobre 2011) — dont « Mazoyères-Chambertin »— Ministère de l'agriculture et de la souveraineté alimentaire — Bulletin officiel (BO-AGRI)
- Reference bookThe Oxford Companion to Wine— Oxford University Press
- Trade bodyVins de Bourgogne — site officiel du Bureau Interprofessionnel des Vins de Bourgogne— Bureau Interprofessionnel des Vins de Bourgogne (BIVB)
- Other sourceMontrachet, Chevalier-Montrachet, Bâtard-Montrachet, Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet et Criots-Bâtard-Montrachet— Wikipedia (anglais), recoupé avec Oxford Companion to Wine
A white Côte de Beaune village whose land holds, alone or shared, four grands crus of the Montrachet family: Chevalier-Montrachet and Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet belong to it outright, while Montrachet and Bâtard-Montrachet are shared with Chassagne. The village appellation makes mostly white: according to its specification, Pinot Noir covers only about 1% of the area.
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