A () is an area controlled by a single

winery A winery is a building or property that produces wine, or a business involved in the cultivation and production of wine, such as a wine company. Some wine companies own many wineries. Besides wine making equipment, larger wineries may also feat ...

(wine company) and can be as small as a named

vineyard A vineyard ( , ) is a plantation of grape-bearing vines. Many vineyards exist for winemaking; others for the production of raisins, table grapes, and non-alcoholic grape juice. The science, practice and study of vineyard production is kno ...

() or as large as an entire (AOC). Frequently this is mentioned on the label as it is rare for only one winery to produce all the wine from an area entitled to a certain name. Each wine is sold by only one company. The

Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led Military career ...

ic inheritance laws typically caused vineyards to be so finely divided among inheritors – down to even a single row of vines – that are needed to bottle commercial quantities of a

wine Wine is an alcoholic drink made from Fermentation in winemaking, fermented fruit. Yeast in winemaking, Yeast consumes the sugar in the fruit and converts it to ethanol and carbon dioxide, releasing heat in the process. Wine is most often made f ...

. Whether a indicates a wine of unusual quality or not is a matter of debate.

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Burgundy Burgundy ( ; ; Burgundian: ''Bregogne'') is a historical territory and former administrative region and province of east-central France. The province was once home to the Dukes of Burgundy from the early 11th until the late 15th century. ...

: Others *

Château-Grillet AOC Château-Grillet is a wine-growing Appellation d'origine contrôlée, AOC in the northern Rhône (wine region), Rhône wine region of France, near Vienne, Isère, Vienne, which produces white wine from Viognier grapes. The whole appellation, whic ...

, of Château Grillet. * Savennières-Coulée-de-Serrant, owned by

Nicolas Joly Nicolas Joly (born 1945) is a French winegrower in the Loire wine region, and one of the pioneers and leading personalities of the biodynamic wine movement. Early life and education Joly studied at Columbia University and subsequently worked fo ...

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