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AOC · Appellation profile

Chambolle-Musigny

763 haProduction zone
2Wines in the rules
15.7 °CGrowing season · intermediate
IbWinkler region

What is made here

Wine colours

The only colour the rules allow.

100% Red

Where it is

Chambolle-Musigny in France

Latitude
47.2°–47.2° N
Vineyard altitude
243 m to 335 m
Delimited vineyard land
183 ha

Lies within
Bourgogne aligoté, Bourgogne, Crémant de Bourgogne, Bourgogne mousseux, Coteaux Bourguignons, Bourgogne Passe-tout-grains

Contains 2 appellations (outlined on the zone map)
Bonnes-Mares, Musigny

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 Chambolle-Musigny must meet.

2 wines in the rules.
WineMain grape(s)Max wine
hl/ha
Chambolle-Musigny Pinot Noir58
Chambolle-Musigny Premier Cru Pinot Noir56

From the official production rules (cahier des charges). Hover a figure to see the clause it comes from. A dash means the rules set no figure, or it is not captured yet.

Other varieties allowed

Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.

3 varieties · Chambolle-Musigny, Chambolle-Musigny Premier Cru

Chardonnay, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Grigio

In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine

9,000
Vines per hectare, minimum
Prohibited
Irrigation

02 · Climate fingerprint

The climate

The growing season averages 15.7 °C, intermediate on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,245 growing degree days (Winkler Ib).

The average year  1991–2020, vineyards at about 300 m

Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
2.8° 77 Jan 3.5° 66 Feb 6.9° 68 Mar 10.2° 77 Apr 14.1° 91 May 17.8° 76 Jun 20.1° 71 Jul 20.1° 71 Aug 16.0° 76 Sep 11.7° 92 Oct 6.5° 94 Nov 3.6° 88 Dec
Growing-season temperature
15.7 °C
Intermediate · 15–17 °C (Jones)
Growing degree days
1,245
Region Ib: 1,111–1,388 degree days
Growing-season rain
554 mm
Of 947 mm a year
Harvest rain
168 mm
September–October

Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 262 m; Vineyard point 2, 288 m; Vineyard point 3, 244 m; Vineyard point 4, 400 m; Vineyard point 5, 308 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. Bourgogne Passe-tout-grainsVery similarCompared with Chambolle-Musigny: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. NiederösterreichVery similarCompared with Chambolle-Musigny: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. TârnaveVery similarCompared with Chambolle-Musigny: same season warmth, similar rain.

Growing-season temperature

Chambolle-Musigny
15.7 °C
Bourgogne Passe-tout-grains
15.7 °C
Niederösterreich
15.7 °C
Târnave
15.7 °C

Growing degree days

Chambolle-Musigny
1,245
Bourgogne Passe-tout-grains
1,243
Niederösterreich
1,254
Târnave
1,261

Growing-season rain

Chambolle-Musigny
554 mm
Bourgogne Passe-tout-grains
550 mm
Niederösterreich
547 mm
Târnave
553 mm

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, 168 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

  1. 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
  2. Quality wines in Italy and France: a dataset of PDO specifications · figshare 25393261 · CC BY 4.0
  3. ERA5-Land monthly averaged data (reanalysis-era5-land-monthly-means) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), Climate Data Store · CC BY 4.0 (Copernicus licence)
  4. OpenStreetMap vineyard areas (landuse=vineyard), from Geofabrik country extracts · OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL 1.0
  5. Copernicus DEM GLO-90 (AWS open data tiles) · European Space Agency / Copernicus · Copernicus DEM licence
  6. 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)
  7. Appellation nesting worked out from boundaries (pipeline/build_nesting.py) · Vinous, from the Eurac PDO boundaries · CC0 (source data)
  8. Climate profiles calculated by Vinous: method
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