Don Kinnan, CSS, CWE, and the lead instructor for the French Wine Society’s new Master Burgundy Certificate program presents an incredible in-depth seminar on the wines, soils, climate and history of the Côte d’Or.

1. La Cote d’Or

2. -- made famous by Napoléon himself

4.  Napoleon’s Favorite Wine
 9 Grands Crus, most in a Côte d’Or village
 26 Premiers Crus
 Largest village AOC in the Côte de Nuits
 110 Growers, plus many “outsiders”

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6. Latricières Clos de Beze Ruchottes
Chambertin
Mazoyères Griottes
Chapelle
Charmes Mazis

7. Grands Crus: 211.3 acres 35,222 cases
Premiers Crus: 199 acres 37,333 cases
Village: 812 acres 159,667 cases
TOTALS: 1222.3 acres 232,222
cases

9.  Cote de Nuits’ most delicate wine.
 Average yields are some of the Cote
d’Or’s lowest.
 Ver y dif ferent soil geology from Gevrey
and Morey.

10.  Village name derived from “boiling fields” (campus
ebulliens).
 Cistercians arrive in 1110 and remain until the
Revolution.
 “Musigny” added to the town name in 1878.
 In 1960, became a “sister town” to Sonoma, CA

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12.  2 Grands Crus(red): 64.2 ac; 8,746 cs
“ “ (white): 1.4 ac; 266 cs
 24 Premiers Crus(red): 138.9 ac; 24,200 cs
 Village (red): 237.1 ac; 44,000 cs
 TOTAL: 441.6 ac
77,212 cs

13. Morey St Denis
Chambolle Musigny
Bonnes Mares
Les Baudes, Les Sentiers
Les Fuées

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19.  Largest Grand Cru in the Cote de Nuits (123.2
acres).
 Largest “clos” in the Cote d’Or.
 100 parcels divided among 80+ owners.
 Good examples tend to be lusher and spicier than
Chambertin and La Tache, but with less intensity
and definition.

20.  Top of the slope, bordering Musigny and
Echezeaux, is best. Soil is pebbly, oolitic limestone
of Bathonian origin, and is well-drained.
 Mid-slope, the soil becomes Bajocian limestone
with pebbles and clay. Drainage is good.
 Lower slope, the soil is more alluvial, deeper, and
drains less well.

22. Clos de Vougeot
Burgundy

23. Vosne-Romanee

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25. Vosne Malconsorts
La Tache, Romanee Conti,Romanée St Vivant
Nuits Boudots
Richebourg

26. A Blue Ribbon Recipe
Ingredients: white oolite
calcaire a entroques
thicken with ostrea acuminata and shake sof tly,
cover with a 4 f t top soil and pebble layer
place on a gently sloping, east facing incline
with fractured base rock of premeaux limestone

27. “The quality potential of
wine is in the
vineyard…..man can
diminish or equal this
quality in the cellar, but not
augment it.”

32.  Monks establish “Clos Saint-Georges” as their
signature vineyard in AD 1023.
 In 1698, Louis XIV regains health after drinking
“Nuits” wine prescribed by his doctor, Dr. Guy
Fagon.

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34. Middle Nuits (16 Premiers Crus):
 The best “terroir” of the village
 Most notably - Les Saint-Georges, Les Cailles, Les
Poirets, Les Vaucrain, Les Pruliers
 Wine style is rich, robust, and sturdy, with a
minerality and a gamey hint, but “the charms of leather
and denin can also be alluring.”

35.  41 Premiers Crus: 349.8 ac 61,378 cs
 Village: 388.8 ac 77,255 cs
 Totals: 738.6 ac 138,633 cs