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Chablis and the South

The cold north, and the hills that keep Burgundy affordable

Chablis · Chalonnaise · Mâconnais · 3 chapters · 8 min read

The outliers: a cold northern pocket, and the hills that keep Burgundy affordable.

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Chablis

  1. 01Kimmeridgian and the SevenOn a cold pocket a hundred kilometres from the Côte, and the oysters in its rock.

South of Beaune

  1. 02The Côte ChalonnaiseOn the five villages that make Burgundy affordable, and the grape nobody wanted.
  2. 03The MâconnaisOn Burgundy's engine room, and the first new premiers crus in decades.