Raveneau
Chablis Premier Cru
The benchmark. Pure mineral tension from Kimmeridgian fossils.
A terroir atlas of white Burgundy
Bourgogne Blanc
Five hundred climats, drawn from INAO’s parcel delimitation, set on the real slope beneath them, and read against seventy-six years of weather. Then fifteen appellations, and a way to find yours.
Plate I · The climats
Every climat, where it lies
Appellation boundaries from INAO’s parcel delimitation, laid over IGN relief, aerial photography or the BRGM geological map. Click any climat for its size, height, slope and the way it faces.
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Plate II · The slope
Five slopes, in section
Cross-sections cut through the hillsides, sampled every ten metres from the elevation model and coloured by the appellation of the ground underneath.
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Plate III · The climate
Seventy-six growing seasons
Growing-season heat, spring frost and September rain at four points along the region, from ERA5-Land and ERA5 reanalysis, 1950 to 2025.
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Plate IV · The villages
Fifteen appellations, measured
How much of each profiled appellation is grand cru, premier cru or village land, how high it sits and which way it faces, next to tasting notes, producers and pairings.
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Plate V · The finder
Find your village
Four questions about how you like to drink. The finder shows exactly how it scores every village, so you can see why it chose them.
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Cellar notes
Bottles worth knowing
Six reference points across the region. Start here.
Leflaive
Puligny-Montrachet
Biodynamic royalty. Laser precision meets floral delicacy.
Coche-Dury
Meursault
The white whale. Allocation-only, worth every centime.
Ramonet
Chassagne-Montrachet
Old-school Burgundy. Complex, age-worthy, unapologetically rich.
Hubert Lamy
Saint-Aubin
The insider’s pick. Serious finesse at a fraction of the price next door.
Château Fuissé
Pouilly-Fuissé
Mâconnais flagship. Le Clos is a Premier Cru monopole worth discovering.
Further reading
Down the rabbit hole
Book
Big Macs & Burgundy
Vanessa Price proves fine wine and fast food pair better than you think. Accessible, irreverent, essential.
Magazine
Noble Rot
A wine mag for people who also read The Paris Review. Wine through the lens of culture, music, and food.
Guide
Wine Folly on Burgundy
The best visual explainer of Burgundy’s impossibly complex appellation system. Infographics that actually help.
World Heritage
The Climats, terroirs of Burgundy
UNESCO’s World Heritage listing of the precisely delimited vineyard parcels of the Côte de Nuits and the Côte de Beaune.
Trade body
Decoding the AOCs
The Bourgogne wine board’s own guide to its appellations and how regional, village, premier cru and grand cru fit together.
Official plans
INAO delimitation portal
The official delimitation plans behind the map, searchable by commune and appellation.
Sources and method
Where every number comes from
All maps and figures are computed from open public data. The build scripts are in the repository, so every number can be regenerated.
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