France · AOCs (Village → Premier Cru → Grand Cru)
Côte de Beaune
The home of the world's benchmark white Burgundies, plus elegant reds.
South of the Côte de Nuits, the slope widens and turns to the world's reference point for Chardonnay — Meursault, Puligny- and Chassagne-Montrachet — alongside refined reds from Pommard and Volnay. Beaune itself, with its tiled Hospices, is the region's beating commercial heart.
Two villages added "-Montrachet" to their own.
ClimateContinental
Altitude230-380 m
Grapes
Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Aligoté, César
Soils
LimestoneMarlClay-Limestone
Montrachet is so prized that growers have duelled over its name.
