Map of BurgundyCôte de Nuits · Côte de Beaune

Guide to the Burgundy map

The map shows the Côte d'Or, the heart of wine-growing Burgundy: a strip of hills about fifty kilometers long, from Marsannay-la-Côte, at the gates of Dijon, to the Maranges, south of Santenay. To the north is the Côte de Nuits, and to the south the Côte de Beaune. The terrain is based on high-resolution elevation data from IGN, vineyard boundaries on the official appellation areas from INAO, and the names of lieux-dits on the French land registry.

How to read the map

• Orange: the Grand Cru vineyards our wines come from.
• Gold: the Premier Cru appellations of our wines.
• Sage green: the Village appellations of our wines.
• Click “Show all climats” to highlight the other classified vineyards too, and explore the Côte beyond our cellar.

Click a village, climat or producer: the map moves to that location and the available wines appear alongside it, with the price and a purchase button. Search finds villages, crus, producers and individual bottles; filters narrow the results by color, level and price.

The appellation pyramid

In Burgundy, a wine's value depends first and foremost on where it comes from. The region's 84 appellations are arranged in four levels, from the base to the top:

• Regional: Bourgogne and the other regional appellations, with grapes that may come from anywhere in Burgundy. This is the base of the pyramid and accounts for about half of production.
• Village: 44 communal appellations, with the village name on the label, such as Gevrey-Chambertin, Volnay or Meursault.
• Premier Cru: over six hundred climats recognized within the Village appellations; the label shows the village name, the designation “Premier Cru” and often the climat name, as in Chambolle-Musigny Premier Cru Les Amoureuses. They account for about a tenth of production.
• Grand Cru: 33 appellations, 32 of them on the Côte d'Or (24 in Côte de Nuits and 8 in Côte de Beaune) and one in Chablis. The label shows only the climat name: Chambertin, Musigny, Clos de Vougeot, Montrachet. They account for about 1% of production.

Climats are vineyard plots that have been delimited and named for centuries. In 2015, the climats of the Bourgogne vineyards, together with the historic centers of Dijon and Beaune, were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Côte de Nuits and Côte de Beaune

The Côte de Nuits, from Marsannay to Nuits-Saint-Georges, is the land of great Pinot Noir: Gevrey-Chambertin, Morey-Saint-Denis, Chambolle-Musigny, Vougeot and Vosne-Romanée are home to almost all the red Grand Cru wines. The Côte de Beaune, from Ladoix-Serrigny to the Maranges, alternates elegant reds such as Pommard, Volnay and Beaune with the most celebrated Chardonnay whites: Meursault, Puligny-Montrachet, Chassagne-Montrachet and Corton-Charlemagne.

From the plain to the hillside

On each village page, the slope profile shows how the level changes as you climb from the plain toward the forest: at the bottom, on deeper soils, regional wines and Village; halfway up the slope, where exposure and drainage are better, the Premier Cru and Grand Cru; higher up, beyond the Côte, the Hautes-Côtes.

Wines on the map

Every Burgundy bottle in our catalog is placed on the map based on what the label says: village, climat and level. When a new wine arrives, the map adds it automatically. The entire selection is also in the Burgundy Wines collection.