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The Côte de Beaune, the southern half of the Côte d'Or, is a seventeen-mile strip of vineyards covering 11,180 acres out of a total classified potential vineyard area of 19,850 acres, which produce exceptional red wines and the most celebrated white wines in the world. Its red wines are generally softer in character than those of the Côte de Nuits due to the higher silica and lower clay content of the soils. There are sixteen villages within the Côte de Beaune entitled to the Côte de Beaune-Villages appellation, a designation which applies only to red wines, and only to those from specific vineyard sites within each village. These are: Ladoix-Serrigny, Pernand-Vergelesses, Savigny-lès-Beaune, Chorey-lès-Beaune, Monthélie, Auxey- Duresses, Saint-Romain, Meursault, Blagny, Puligny-Montrachet, Chassagne-Montrachet, Saint-Aubin, Santenay (with Remigny), Cheilly-lès-Maranges, Dezize-lès-Maranges and Sampigny-lès-Maranges. When not blended cross-commune, these wines may append the suffix "-Côte de Beaune" to the commune name, as, for example, "Ladoix-Côte de Beaune." Until the late 1980s, there was no village classification for the vineyards of Cheilly-, Dezize- and Sampigny-lès-Maranges, and the wines were all sold as Côte de Beaune-Villages, and may still be. Recent legislation by the INAO, however, has given certain parcels village as well as premier cru status in these communes, while other parcels remain under the Côte de Beaune-Villages designation. Thus, yield may fluctuate considerably, on either side of an average 10,000 hectolitres a year. Louis Jadot Côte de Beaune-Villages is blended from wines selected from small growers in these areas with whom Jadot maintains long-standing relationships. Beyond this, the quality of the wine is improved by practicing a "réplis," whereby Jadot adds village-level wines from the vineyards of Santenay, Auxey-Duresses, Savigny and other communes in the Côte de Beaune, in effect declassifying superior wines to the benefit of the smaller wine. Jadot Côte de Beaune-Villages is supple and medium-bodied, with ripe, red fruit depth and a typically elegant, earthy and aromatic bouquet. The soft tannins are balanced by sweet berry flavors that make it easily approachable when young but capable of aging very gracefully over the medium term. |
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