Named vineyard
Grands-Échezeaux
Identity card
Grand cruAOPRed
Burgundy › Côte de Nuits › Flagey-Échezeaux · Recognised on 31 July 1937
- Grand cru
- Premier cru
- Village
- Regional
Key points
- A red grand cru of about 7.5 ha (2009), in Flagey-Échezeaux only.
- Tucked into a recess of the Clos de Vougeot wall; once a Cîteaux vineyard.
- At most 42 hl/ha and at least 11.5% natural alcohol.
Grape varieties
Red wine onlyPinot 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
42
hl/ha
Maximum yield
11.5
% ABV
Minimum natural alcohol
9,000
vines/ha
Minimum planting density
Minimum ageing: At least until 15 June after the harvest
- Maximum yield
- How much wine a hectare may produce under the appellation (a higher, exceptional ceiling often exists). The lower it is, the less can be made: one of the levers on how concentrated the grapes are. For reference: 35 hl/ha to 80 hl/ha across 68 Oenopia appellations of the same colour.
- Minimum natural alcohol
- The alcohol the grapes' own sugar must be able to give, without enrichment: a ripeness threshold at harvest. For reference: 9 % ABV to 12.5 % ABV across 64 Oenopia appellations of the same colour.
- 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 76 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: Foot of the slope, on a combe's small alluvial fan
- Soils: Scree, clays and silts over a limestone slab
- Soils: Clayey soils, red with iron oxides, well drained
Wine style
- Cherry
- Rose
- Violet
- Forest floor
- dense but supple tannins
Boundaries: INAO, AOC vineyard plot delimitation (September 2026 edition) · Open Licence
Specification
25 October 2011
Décret n° 2011-1383 du 25 octobre 2011 relatif à l'AOC « Grands-Echezeaux » (JORF n°0251 du 28 octobre 2011, page 18202, texte n°34), modifié par le décret n° 2013-82 du 24 janvier 2013 (JORF n°0023 du 27 janvier 2013, page 1687, texte n°5)
Labelling terms
- The name may be followed by the words "grand cru"
Nearby appellations
Sources
- Official sourceCahier des charges de l'appellation d'origine contrôlée « Grands-Echezeaux »— Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité (INAO)
- Official sourceCahier des charges de l'appellation d'origine contrôlée « Vosne-Romanée »— Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité (INAO)
- Reference bookThe Oxford Companion to Wine— Oxford University Press
- Official sourceDélimitation parcellaire des AOC viticoles de l'INAO (jeu de données ouvert)— Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité (INAO) / data.gouv.fr
- Trade bodyFiches d'appellation des vins de Bourgogne (surfaces et récoltes)— Bureau Interprofessionnel des Vins de Bourgogne (BIVB)
- Official sourceCahier des charges de l'AOC « Grands-Echezeaux » homologué par le décret n° 2011-1383 du 25 octobre 2011, modifié par le décret n° 2013-82 du 24 janvier 2013— Ministère de l'agriculture et de la souveraineté alimentaire — Bulletin officiel (BO-AGRI)
Nine hectares tucked at the foot of the Côte, on the piedmont, at the mouth of the combe that built a small alluvial fan here. The soils, shallow and strongly clayey, still drain well over the shallow limestone slab, and iron oxides give them their red colour. An immediate neighbour of the Clos de Vougeot, the climat is held to be more homogeneous and more substantial than the Échezeaux above it.
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