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Guide to the Champagne map

The map shows the wine region of Champagne, from the Montagne de Reims to the Côte des Bar: village boundaries, vineyards, and the names of the lieux-dits, on terrain rendered using IGN data.

Champagne at a glance

L's Champagne region was delimited by a 1927 law; the appellation of origin has been recognized since 1936. It lies about 150 kilometers east of Paris and has around 34,200 hectares of producing vineyards and 319 villages, called “crus,” in five departments: the Marne has 66% of the vineyards, Aube 23%, and Aisne 10%; small areas are in Haute-Marne and Seine-et-Marne. There are around 280,000 parcels, averaging 12 ares.

Three grape varieties account for almost all Champagne: Pinot Noir (38% of the vineyards), Chardonnay (32%), and Meunier (30%); five others, such as Arbane and Petit Meslier, are rare. The vineyards lie at elevations of 90 to 300 meters, on slopes facing mainly south, southeast, and east, and over predominantly limestone subsoil: chalk (craie), marl, and hard limestone. Since 2015, «Coteaux, Maisons et Caves de Champagne» has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The regions

The Comité Champagne distinguishes four major subregions: Montagne de Reims, Vallée de la Marne, Côte des Blancs, and Côte des Bar. The map shows eight, as in the tables of the Union des Maisons de Champagne, which also distinguish Côte de Sézanne, Val du Petit Morin, Vitryat, and Montgueux within the Côte des Blancs.

  • Montagne de Reims: Pinot Noir and nine Grand Cru.
  • Vallée de la Marne: the largest area, mainly Meunier; Pinot Noir around Aÿ.
  • Côte des Blancs: Chardonnay on chalk and six Grand Cru.
  • Côte de Sézanne: the Côte des Blancs continuing southwest.
  • Val du Petit Morin: Chardonnay and Meunier along the Petit Morin and the Saint-Gond marshes.
  • Vitryat: Chardonnay on chalk around Vitry-le-François.
  • Montgueux: a hill of Chardonnay on the outskirts of Troyes.
  • Côte des Bar: Pinot Noir on Kimmeridgian marl and limestone in the Aube.

The L'échelle des crus

In Champagne, the rating applies to the village, not to individual vineyards. In 1911, winegrowers and houses created the échelle des crus to set grape prices village by village: over time, each was given a score between 80 and 100%, and a village rated 95% received 95% of the base price. A 1952 decree introduced the designations Grand Cru and Premier Cru. Since 2000, the interprofessional body no longer sets grape prices, which are left to contracts between winegrowers and houses, and in 2010 the INAO abolished the échelle; the titles, however, remained in the regulations.

Grand Cru (17 villages, rated 100%): Ambonnay, Avize, Aÿ, Beaumont-sur-Vesle, Bouzy, Chouilly, Cramant, Louvois, Mailly-Champagne, Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, Oger, Oiry, Puisieulx, Sillery, Tours-sur-Marne, Verzenay and Verzy.

Premier Cru (42 villages, rated between 90 and 99%): Avenay-Val-d'Or, Bergères-lès-Vertus, Bezannes, Billy-le-Grand, Bisseuil, Chamery, Champillon, Chigny-les-Roses, Coligny, Cormontreuil, Coulommes-la-Montagne, Cuis, Cumières, Dizy, Écueil, Étréchy, Grauves, Hautvillers, Jouy-lès-Reims, Les Mesneux, Ludes, Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, Montbré, Mutigny, Pargny-lès-Reims, Pierry, Rilly-la-Montagne, Sacy, Sermiers, Taissy, Tauxières, Trépail, Trois-Puits, Vaudemange, Vertus, Ville-Dommange, Villeneuve-Renneville, Villers-Allerand, Villers-aux-Nœuds, Villers-Marmery, Voipreux and Vrigny.

Some villages are now part of larger municipalities: Aÿ, Mareuil-sur-Aÿ and Bisseuil are part of Aÿ-Champagne; Oger, Vertus and Voipreux are part of Blancs-Coteaux; Louvois and Tauxières-Mutry are part of Val de Livre; Coligny is part of Val-des-Marais. On the map, they remain separate, each with its own rating. The other villages in the appellation, around 260, have no title.

Lieux-dits and single vineyards

Within each village, the vineyards have old names: Comité Champagne counts tens of thousands of lieux-dits, such as les Gouttes d'Or or les Froids Monts. By tradition, Champagne is a wine blended from several parcels, villages, and grape varieties; when the label names a cadastral lieu-dit, the appellation rules require all the grapes to come from there. On the map, the names of the lieux-dits appear within the vineyards; those of our single-parcel wines are shown in full and can be tapped.

How to read the map

When you open the map, you see the zones, each with the number of our wines. Tap a zone on the map or in the bar at the top: the map zooms into it, its villages, vines, and lieux-dits light up, and everything else fades. Tap “All of Champagne” to return to the overview.

  • Orange: vines in Grand Cru villages.
  • Gold: vines in Premier Cru villages.
  • Sage green: vines in the other villages.
  • The vines are highlighted in the villages where our wines come from; with “Show all villages”, they all light up, so you can explore Champagne beyond our cellar.

Each wine is placed in the most precise location we know: the lieu-dit, if the label names it; otherwise the village shown on the label; otherwise the producer’s address, maison or vigneron, because many Champagne wines are made from grapes from several villages. Tap a village, lieu-dit, or producer: the available wines appear alongside, with their price and a button to purchase them. The entire selection is also in the Champagne collection.

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