What is made here
Wine colours
The only colour the rules allow.
Where it is
Bourgogne mousseux in France
- Latitude
- 45.8°–48.1° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 221 m to 427 m
- Delimited vineyard land
- 54,989 ha
Lies within
Crémant de Bourgogne
Covers the same area as
Bourgogne aligoté, Bourgogne Passe-tout-grains, Coteaux Bourguignons
Contains 74 appellations (outlined on the zone map)
Aloxe-Corton, Auxey-Duresses, Bâtard-Montrachet, Beaune, Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet, Blagny, Bonnes-Mares, Bourgogne, Bouzeron, Chambertin, Chambertin-Clos de Bèze, Chambolle-Musigny, Chapelle-Chambertin, Charlemagne, Charmes-Chambertin, Chassagne-Montrachet, Chevalier-Montrachet, Chorey-lès-Beaune, Clos de la Roche, Clos de Tart, Clos de Vougeot, Clos des Lambrays, Clos Saint-Denis, Corton, Corton-Charlemagne, Côte de Beaune, Côte de Beaune-Villages, Côte de Nuits-Villages, Criots-Bâtard-Montrachet, Echezeaux, Fixin, Gevrey-Chambertin, Givry, Grands-Echezeaux, Griotte-Chambertin, Irancy, La Grande Rue, La Romanée, La Tâche, Ladoix, Latricières-Chambertin, Mâcon, Maranges, Marsannay, Mazis-Chambertin, Mazoyères-Chambertin, Mercurey, Meursault, Montagny, Monthélie, Montrachet, Morey-Saint-Denis, Musigny, Nuits-Saint-Georges, Pernand-Vergelesses, Pommard, Pouilly-Fuissé, Pouilly-Loché, Pouilly-Vinzelles, Puligny-Montrachet, Richebourg, Romanée-Conti, Romanée-Saint-Vivant, Ruchottes-Chambertin, Rully, Saint-Aubin, Saint-Bris, Saint-Romain, Santenay, Savigny-lès-Beaune, Viré-Clessé, Volnay, Vosne-Romanée, Vougeot
Worked out from the boundaries (smallest container first). Uses the delimited parcels where INAO publishes them.
The delimited vineyard parcels themselves, so the shape is patchy: only land within them may grow the wine. Boundary: INAO parcel delimitation (Licence Ouverte); nearby parcels drawn as one block, with less detail for larger appellations. Country outlines: Natural Earth. Dots on the zone map are the vineyard points used for climate.
01 · What the law says
The rules
Limits on grapes, yields, ripeness and ageing that every wine labelled Bourgogne mousseux must meet.
Blend rules
Bourgogne Mousseux
- – gamay / pinot noir / césar · Main grape
- ≤ 49% aligoté / chardonnay / gamay de Bouze / gamay de Chaudenay / melon / pinot blanc / pinot gris · Allowed
; release from 9 months after tirage.
Blend rules
Bourgogne Mousseux Hautes Côtes de Beaune
- – gamay / pinot noir / césar · Main grape
- ≤ 49% aligoté / chardonnay / gamay de Bouze / gamay de Chaudenay / melon / pinot blanc / pinot gris · Allowed
; release from 9 months after tirage.
Blend rules
Bourgogne Mousseux Hautes Côtes de Nuits
- – gamay / pinot noir / césar · Main grape
- ≤ 49% aligoté / chardonnay / gamay de Bouze / gamay de Chaudenay / melon / pinot blanc / pinot gris · Allowed
; release from 9 months after tirage.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
7 varieties · Bourgogne Mousseux, Bourgogne Mousseux Hautes Côtes de Beaune, Bourgogne Mousseux Hautes Côtes de Nuits
Aligoté, Chardonnay, Gamay de Bouze, Gamay de Chaudenay, Melon De Bourgogne, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Grigio
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
5,000
Vines per hectare, minimum
Training
Systems allowed
cordon de Royat; cordon bilatéral; gobelet; éventail; taille Guyot simple; taille Guyot double
Prohibited
Irrigation
Allowed
Enrichment (chaptalisation)
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 15.9 °C, intermediate on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,279 growing degree days (Winkler Ib).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 300 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 15.9 °C
- Intermediate · 15–17 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,279
- Region Ib: 1,111–1,388 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 587 mm
- Of 985 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 181 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 254 m; Vineyard point 2, 183 m; Vineyard point 3, 291 m; Vineyard point 4, 311 m; Vineyard point 5, 462 m), moved to each point's height from the model's terrain. Indices that need daily data are not captured yet. How the climate figures are made.
Lower confidence:Monthly reanalysis in moderately complex terrain; not yet checked against a weather station.
Closest climates in the database
Picked by the data, not by hand: the profiles nearest on season warmth (counted twice), degree days, rain, ripening-month nights and day–night range. Neighbours within 30 km are left out, as they share the same weather.
1. Côtes de MillauVery similarCompared with Bourgogne mousseux: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Bourgogne aligotéVery similarCompared with Bourgogne mousseux: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Charmes-ChambertinVery similarCompared with Bourgogne mousseux: same season warmth, similar rain.
Growing-season temperature
Growing degree days
Growing-season rain
03 · Year by year
35 vintages
Each column is one growing season: heat above or below the 1991–2020 average, and rain at harvest. Pick a year for the details.
Warmer than averageCooler than averageHarvest rain (Sep–Oct)Average harvest rain, 181 mm
2025
- Growing-season temp.
- Growing degree days
- Harvest rain
- Growing-season rain
- September nights
- Hot days and frosts
Seasons are labelled by harvest year (April–October). Year-to-year changes from ERA5-Land; tested against station records in Alto Adige (r = 0.94 for season temperature at Bolzano). Rain varies more locally, so treat single-season rain with some caution. Vintage ratings, harvest dates and frost or hail events have places in the data model but are not loaded yet.
04 · Where the numbers come from
Sources
- A geospatial inventory of regulatory information for wine protected designations of origin in Europe · Candiago et al., Scientific Data 9, 394 (2022); Eurac Research · CC0
- Quality wines in Italy and France: a dataset of PDO specifications · figshare 25393261 · CC BY 4.0
- ERA5-Land monthly averaged data (reanalysis-era5-land-monthly-means) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), Climate Data Store · CC BY 4.0 (Copernicus licence)
- OpenStreetMap vineyard areas (landuse=vineyard), from Geofabrik country extracts · OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL 1.0
- Copernicus DEM GLO-90 (AWS open data tiles) · European Space Agency / Copernicus · Copernicus DEM licence
- Cahier des charges: Bourgogne mousseux (Cahier des charges relatifs aux appellations d’origines contrôlées suivantes 09/11/2011 : Bourgogne mousseux, Chevalier-Montrachet, Muscadet Côtes de Grandlieu,) · Ministère de l'Agriculture (Bulletin officiel), as linked by INAO · Official act
- Délimitation parcellaire des AOC viticoles de l'INAO · Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité (INAO), via data.gouv.fr · Licence Ouverte / Open Licence (Etalab)
- Appellation nesting worked out from boundaries (pipeline/build_nesting.py) · Vinous, from the Eurac PDO boundaries · CC0 (source data)
- Climate profiles calculated by Vinous: method
Still to check (3)
- Generated from EU reference data: check against the current product specification.
- From the specification: Sparkling red wines only. Accessory varieties are limited to 10% of the holding's plantings and 49% of the cuvée; chardonnay, pinot blanc and pinot gris may be interplanted up to 15% per parcel. In the Hautes Côtes de Beaune and Hautes Côtes de Nuits areas the minimum density is 4,000 vines/ha (cordon or Guyot only, 6 buds/m²); 'en lyre' vines need 3,000 vines/ha. Base wines have at most 2 g/l fermentable sugars; release 9 months after tirage.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.