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. Côte de Beaune
 18 miles long
 Production:
 1.9 million cases
 71% Pinot Noir
 29% Chardonnay
 Origin of the world’s
most famous
Chardonnay wines
 Includes seven of
the nine white
Grands Crus

3. Welcome to Beaune

4.  Wine nerve center of Burgundy, population
22,000, a walled fortress town.
 Cote d’Or’s third largest wine commune, after
Gevrey-Chambertin and Meursault.
 42 Premiers Crus, no Grands Crus.
 Home of the Hospices de Beaune.

7.  Soil variation on the Beaune slope is not
extreme and exposures are similar.
 Wine styles vary in a much narrower vein.
 A broad definition of Beaune wine style would
be plump, succulent, fruity, with a rich grapey
quality.

8. N

9.  Vineyards: (Reds) 897 ac, incl 694 ac 1er
Crus
(Whites) 121 ac, incl 89 ac 1er Crus
 Wines: (Reds) 150,444 cs,
incl 114,689 cs 1er Crus
(Whites) 26,333 cs, incl 19,555 cs 1er
NOTE: 76% is Premier Cru, 15 % is white wine.

10. Beaune Couchereaux, Ursules, Boucherottes

17. KEY
 Village
 Derrière St.-Jean
 En Moigelot
N

18.  28 Premiers Crus, only red wines
produced.
 Ranks 3d in red wine production among
the villages of the Côte de Beaune .
 Vineyard has a high % of active
limestone interacting with its clays.
Electro-magnetic proper ties of the clays
are similar to those of the Côte de
Nuits.

19.  Vines: 795 ac, incl 301 ac Premiers
Crus
 Wines: 142,889 cs, incl 49,778 cs
1er Crus
 No Grands Crus.
 Red wines only.

20.  The Volnay slope is steeper, more rocky, and
the soil is redder in color. Lower down, in
Rugiens Bas, the subsoil is Argovian limestone,
covered with a thick band of marly, calcareous
debris.
 Further down, the marl is mixed with an iron-
rich oolite, becoming more clayey.

21. Pommard Rugiens, Pommard Commaraine

23.  Knights of Malta own vineyards in AD 1207.
 Philip the Bold owns Caillerets and drank Volnay
wine at his coronation in AD 1328.
 Louis XI siphons entire 1447 vintage into his
personal cellar.
 Louis XIV (the Sun King) records himself as
“amateur of Volnay”.

24. KEY
N

25. Volnay Clos de la Barre
Volnay Clos des Chênes

26.  Vines: 511 ac, incl 291 ac of 29 Premiers Crus
 Wines: 97,444 cs, incl 54,722 cs of 1er Crus

27.  Vintage 2006  Vintage 2006

29.  18 miles long
 Production:
2 million cases
 57% Red Wine
 43% White
Wine

31.  La Jaquelotte ou Champ Canet
N

32. Puligny-Montrachet: Four Grands Crus Whites

33. Major districts: Côte de Beaune, continued
Le Montrachet
Burgundy

34.  Vines:
Whites - 511.3 ac, incl 239.6 ac 1er Crus
Red - 3.1 ac, incl 0.67 ac 1er Crus
 Wines:
White - 122,389 cs, incl 54,333 cs 1er Crus
Red - 1144 cs, incl 411 cs 1er Crus

35. Puligy Folatières, Clos de la Garenne, Combettes,
Referts

37. Fermentation Room Maison
Louis Jadot
Burgundy

38. Jacques LARDIERE,
Former Technical Director, Maison Louis Jadot