Chorey-les-Beaune (, literally ''Chorey

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Beaune Beaune (; in Burgundian: ''Beane'') is widely considered to be the wine capital of Burgundy in the Côte d'Or department in eastern France. It is located between Lyon and Dijon. Beaune is one of the key wine centers in France, and a major ...

'') is a commune in the

Côte-d'Or Côte-d'Or () is a département in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of Northeastern France. In 2019, it had a population of 534,124.

department in eastern

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. It lies northeast of the city of

on the plain of the

Saône The Saône ( , ; ; ) is a river in eastern France (modern Regions of France, region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté). It is a right tributary of the Rhône, rising at Vioménil in the Vosges (department), Vosges Departments of France, department an ...

just to the east of the

A31 autoroute The A31 autoroute, also known as ''l'Autoroute de Lorraine-Bourgogne'', is a French motorway. The road runs from the Franco-Luxembourg border to Beaune where it joins the A6. The northern part of the autoroute is free, as far as the town of To ...

Population

Wine

Chorey-les-Beaune is one of the wine communes of the

Côte de Beaune The Côte de Beaune area is the southern part of the Côte d'Or (escarpment), Côte d'Or, the limestone ridge that is home to the great names of Burgundy wine. The Côte de Beaune (France) starts between Nuits-Saint-Georges and Beaune, and exten ...

. The wines of Chorey-les-Beaune grow on the relatively flat land of the Saône plain, rather than on the slopes of the

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, and for this reason the commune has no

Premier Cru Cru is a wine Glossary of wine terms, term used to indicate a high-quality vineyard or group of vineyards. It is a French language, French word which was originally used to refer to both a region and anything grown in it, but is now mostly used t ...

(or Grand Cru) vineyards. The soils are composed mostly of quaternary detrital and alluvial fills, and the wines tend to be thinner and less complex than those grown on the

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limestone, gravels, and marls of the slopes from which the better quality wines of the Côte d'Or come.Fanet, Jacuqes ''Great Wine Terroirs'', University of California Press, Berkeley (2004) pp. 39-42.

References

Communes of Côte-d'Or Côte-d'Or communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Beaune-geo-stub

Population

Wine

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