Côte de Nuits-Villages

Côte de Nuits-Villages is a Village appellation that bears no single commune's name: under the appellation rules approved on September 2, 2026, it brings together the three communes at the southern end of the Côte de Nuits, Prémeaux-Prissey, Comblanchien, and Corgoloin, where the Côte de Nuits meets the Côte de Beaune. For almost ninety years the area also included Fixin and Brochon, to the north, just south of Dijon: production there had dwindled and the wines have an appellation of their own, so the new rules narrowed the area to the three southern communes.

The name evolved in stages. In 1934 a court ruling granted these vineyards the appellation “Vins fins de la Côte de Nuits,” which became an AOC by decree of July 31, 1937; the name Côte de Nuits-Villages arrived in 1964, and the old wording is still permitted on labels. Production is almost entirely red, from Pinot Noir: according to the BIVB, in 2022, when the area still included Fixin and Brochon, 146.83 hectares of red and 11.43 of white were in production. What little Chardonnay there is grows mainly on the poor, stony slopes above the village of Comblanchien.

The slope faces east. Higher up, Comblanchien limestone comes to the surface, a very compact rock that local quarries extract and polish like marble; lower down, toward the plain, the soils become deeper and richer in clay. Precisely because the soils vary from one parcel to the next, growers often name the lieu-dit of origin on the label, in lettering no more than half the size of the appellation's. According to the appellation rules, the reds combine velvety tannins with fresh fruit and, after a few years in bottle, can recall licorice and forest floor. You'll find the available bottles below.