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A History in Bottles

Monks, dukes, revolution and an aphid, in the order they drew the map

Cluny · Cîteaux · Philip the Bold · phylloxera · 4 chapters · 12 min read

How a thousand years of monks, dukes, revolution and disease drew the map.

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The Church on the Hill

  1. 01The Monks Who Mapped the HillOn why the map of the Côte was drawn by people who were not trying to sell anything.
  2. 02The Duke Who Banned GamayOn the edict that fixed one grape to one hillside for six hundred years.

Confiscation and Disease

  1. 03The Sale of the Church VineyardsOn the largest transfer of vineyard ownership in the region's history, and what it did not cause.
  2. 04The Louse That Ended the Old VineyardOn an aphid that ended the old vineyard and the compromise that saved the new one.