Remigny

Remigny is a case apart in the Côte de Beaune: a commune of Saône-et-Loire, among the ten smallest in the département, 2.5 square kilometers, with no appellation bearing its own name. Its vines fall within two AOCs named after its neighbors in the Côte-d'Or: Santenay, whose area straddles the two départements and comprises the communes of Santenay and Remigny, and Chassagne-Montrachet, whose area extends over Chassagne-Montrachet and Remigny. On the label, then, a wine from Remigny is called Santenay or Chassagne-Montrachet.

The village sits low, where the Côte gives way toward Chagny: it borders Chassagne-Montrachet to the north, Santenay to the west, Chagny to the east, and Bouzeron, in the Côte Chalonnaise, to the south. The parcels delimited for the two appellations cover about twenty hectares of the commune, between 210 and 240 meters, and are all Village level: the Premiers Crus of Santenay and Chassagne-Montrachet lie entirely within the communes that give them their names. The other vines yield regional appellations, some as Bourgogne Côte d'Or, others as Bourgogne Côte Chalonnaise: Remigny is a hinge between the two Côtes. The commune is among the forty in the core zone of the Climats of Burgundy, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2015.

For style, the two appellations set the tone: Santenay is mostly red, from Pinot Noir, with strawberry, cherry, and violet, and white from Chardonnay with a profile of hazelnut and fern; Chassagne-Montrachet gives whites of almond, honey, and white flowers and reds that recall cherry. The available bottles linked to Remigny, when there are any, appear further down.