What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Bourgogne in France
- Latitude
- 45.8°–48.1° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 214 m to 411 m
- Delimited vineyard land
- 40,415 ha
Lies within
Bourgogne aligoté, Crémant de Bourgogne, Bourgogne mousseux, Coteaux Bourguignons, Bourgogne Passe-tout-grains
Contains 71 appellations (outlined on the zone map)
Aloxe-Corton, Auxey-Duresses, Bâtard-Montrachet, Beaune, Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet, Blagny, Bonnes-Mares, 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, Maranges, Marsannay, Mazis-Chambertin, Mazoyères-Chambertin, Mercurey, Meursault, 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-Romain, Saint-Véran, 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.
Showing every colour The colour filter changes the rules and grapes. Climate, vintages and soils describe the vineyards, so they stay the same.
01 · What the law says
The rules
Limits on grapes, yields, ripeness and ageing that every wine labelled Bourgogne must meet.
Blend rules
Bourgogne Côtes du Couchois
- – Pinot Noir · Main grape
- ≤ 49% césar · Allowed
- ≤ 30% Gamay · Allowed
- ≤ 15% chardonnay / pinot blanc / pinot gris · Allowed
Blend rules
Bourgogne Clairet
- – pinot noir / pinot gris · Main grape
- ≤ 49% césar · Allowed
- ≤ 15% pinot blanc / chardonnay · Allowed
Blend rules
Bourgogne Epineuil
- – pinot noir / pinot gris · Main grape
- ≤ 49% césar · Allowed
- ≤ 15% pinot blanc / chardonnay · Allowed
Blend rules
Bourgogne
- – pinot noir / pinot gris · Main grape
- ≤ 49% césar · Allowed
- ≤ 15% pinot blanc / chardonnay · Allowed
Blend rules
Bourgogne la Chapelle Notre-Dame
- – pinot noir / pinot gris · Main grape
- ≤ 49% césar · Allowed
- ≤ 15% pinot blanc / chardonnay · Allowed
Blend rules
Bourgogne le Chapitre
- – pinot noir / pinot gris · Main grape
- ≤ 49% césar · Allowed
- ≤ 15% pinot blanc / chardonnay · Allowed
Blend rules
Bourgogne Chitry
- – pinot noir / pinot gris · Main grape
- ≤ 49% césar · Allowed
- ≤ 15% pinot blanc / chardonnay · Allowed
Blend rules
Bourgogne Côtes d’Auxerre
- – pinot noir / pinot gris · Main grape
- ≤ 49% césar · Allowed
- ≤ 15% pinot blanc / chardonnay · Allowed
Blend rules
Bourgogne Côte Chalonnaise
- – pinot noir / pinot gris · Main grape
- ≤ 49% césar · Allowed
- ≤ 15% pinot blanc / chardonnay · Allowed
Blend rules
Bourgogne Côte Saint-Jacques
- – pinot noir / pinot gris · Main grape
- ≤ 49% césar · Allowed
- ≤ 15% pinot blanc / chardonnay · Allowed
Blend rules
Bourgogne Coulanges-la-Vineuse
- – pinot noir / pinot gris · Main grape
- ≤ 49% césar · Allowed
- ≤ 15% pinot blanc / chardonnay · Allowed
Blend rules
Bourgogne Hautes Côtes de Beaune
- – pinot noir / pinot gris · Main grape
- ≤ 49% césar · Allowed
- ≤ 15% pinot blanc / chardonnay · Allowed
; release from 15 March of the year after the harvest.
Blend rules
Bourgogne Hautes Côtes de Nuits
- – pinot noir / pinot gris · Main grape
- ≤ 49% césar · Allowed
- ≤ 15% pinot blanc / chardonnay · Allowed
; release from 15 March of the year after the harvest.
Blend rules
Bourgogne Montrecul/Montre-Cul/en Montre-Cul
- – pinot noir / pinot gris · Main grape
- ≤ 49% césar · Allowed
- ≤ 15% pinot blanc / chardonnay · Allowed
Blend rules
Bourgogne Tonnerre
- – chardonnay / pinot blanc · Main grape
- ≤ 30% Pinot Grigio · Allowed
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
4 varieties · 15 wines
Chardonnay, César, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Grigio
3 varieties · 11 wines
Chardonnay, César, Pinot Blanc
1 varieties · 12 wines
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; taille à queue du Mâconnais; taille Chablis
Prohibited
Irrigation
Allowed
Enrichment (chaptalisation)
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 15.8 °C, intermediate on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,248 growing degree days (Winkler Ib).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 283 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 15.8 °C
- Intermediate · 15–17 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,248
- Region Ib: 1,111–1,388 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 543 mm
- Of 936 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 166 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 249 m; Vineyard point 2, 181 m; Vineyard point 3, 281 m; Vineyard point 4, 315 m; Vineyard point 5, 387 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.
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. BouzeronVery similarCompared with Bourgogne: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Côte de Nuits-VillagesVery similarCompared with Bourgogne: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Pernand-VergelessesVery similarCompared with Bourgogne: 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, 166 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 (Cahier des charges de l’appellation d’origine contrôlée Bourgogne, homologué par l'arrêté du 6 janvier 2026 (AGRT2535961A) - BO n°03 du 15 janvier 2026) · 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: The register lists Bourgogne Vézelay, Savigny-Lès-Beaune and Savigny-Lès-Beaune Premier Cru, which this cahier does not cover (left empty), and omits the 'Côte d'Or' denomination (white and red), which it does. Minimum planting density is 5000 vines/ha generally, 4000 for the Hautes Côtes, 7000 for Chitry, Côtes d'Auxerre, Côte Chalonnaise, Côtes du Couchois, Côte Saint-Jacques, Coulanges-la-Vineuse, Epineuil and Tonnerre, and 9000 for La Chapelle Notre-Dame, Le Chapitre and Montrecul. Vineyard limits differ from the blend limits recorded (pinot gris 30%, césar 10%, gamay 30% of plantings; césar and gamay only in the Yonne and the Beaujolais crus respectively); Bourgogne Gamay comes from the Beaujolais cru areas, follows those crus' own production rules and needs at least 85% gamay. Hautes Côtes wines are aged until at least 1 March after the harvest; white wines may have 4 g/l sugar when total acidity is at least 4.13 g/l.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.