A clos (French 'enclosure') is a walled vineyard. Walled vineyards protected the grapes from theft and may improve the mesoclimate. They were often the vineyards of

Cistercian The Cistercians, () officially the Order of Cistercians ( la, (Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint ...

monasteries. The word is often used in the name of famous wines even when the wall no longer exists.

By country

France

* Bordeaux:

Château Léoville-Las Cases Château Léoville-Las Cases is a winery in the Saint-Julien appellation of the Bordeaux region of France. Château Léoville-Las Cases is also the name of the red wine produced by this property. The wine produced here was classified as one o ...

Clos Haut-Peyraguey Clos may refer to: People * Clos (surname) Other uses * CLOS, Command line-of-sight, a method of guiding a missile to its intended target * Clos network, a kind of multistage switching network * Clos (vineyard), a walled vineyard; used in Fran ...

Clos Fourtet Clos Fourtet, previously Château Clos Fourtet and archaically Camfourtet, is a Bordeaux wine from the appellation Saint-Émilion, ranked ''Premier grand cru classé B'' in the Classification of Saint-Émilion wine. The Clos Fourtet winery is loca ...

, Clos des Jacobins, Clos de l'Oratoire, Clos de Plince, Clos Saint-Martin *

Burgundy Burgundy (; french: link=no, Bourgogne ) 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. The c ...

: Clos Napoléon (

Fixin Fixin is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne Burgundy (; french: link=no, Bourgogne ) is a historical territory and former administrative region and province of east-central France. The province was once home to the D ...

), Chambertin-Clos de Bèze,

Clos de Tart Clos de Tart is an ''Appellation d'origine contrôlée'' (AOC) and Grand Cru vineyard for red wine in the Côte de Nuits subregion of Burgundy, with Pinot noir as the main grape variety. It is situated in the commune of Morey-Saint-Denis in the C ...

Clos des Lambrays Clos des Lambrays is an ''Appellation d'origine contrôlée'' (AOC) and Grand Cru vineyard for red wine in the Côte de Nuits subregion of Burgundy, with Pinot noir as the main grape variety. K. MacNeil ''The Wine Bible'' pg 191-195 Workman Publ ...

, Clos de la Roche, Clos Saint-Denis, La Romanée together with La Romanée-Conti,

Clos de Vougeot Clos de Vougeot, also known as Clos Vougeot, is a wall-enclosed vineyard, a ''clos'', in the Burgundy wine region, and an ''Appellation d'origine contrôlée'' (AOC) for red wine from this vineyard. It was named for the River Vouge, which is i ...

, Clos des Réas (

Vougeot Vougeot () is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of eastern France. Population Wine The historical wall-enclosed Grand Cru vineyard Clos Vougeot is situated within the commune and makes up most of its ...

), Corton-Clos du Roi, Clos des Ursules, Clos des Mouches ( Beaune), Clos des Épeneaux ( Pommard), Clos du Val (

Auxey-Duresses Auxey-Duresses () is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of eastern France. The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Alcéens'' or ''Alcéennes''. Geography Auxey-Duresses is a wine-growing commune ...

), Clos des Chênes ( Volnay), Montrachet * Champagne: Clos des Goisses ( Mareuil-sur-Aÿ), Clos du Mesnil ( Le Mesnil-sur-Oger; see Champagne Krug), Clos Saint Hilaire ( Mareuil-sur-Aÿ; see Billecart-Salmon) * Alsace: Clos Sainte-Hune in Grand Cru Rosacker (

Hunawihr Hunawihr (; german: Hunaweier) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. The village is a member of the ''Les Plus Beaux Villages de France'' ("The most beautiful villages of France") association. See also ...

), Clos Sainte-Odile ( Obernai), Clos Saint-Urbain (Turkheim) * Loire: Clos de la Coulée-de-Serrant, Clos du Papillon (

Savennières Savennières () is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France. It lies near the river Loire south west of Angers and is best known for its production of highly rated white wine. With production predominantly centred on the Ch ...

), Le Grand Clos ( Bourgueil) * Rhône: Clos des Papes, Clos du Mont-Olivet, Clos de l'Oratoire des Papes ( Châteauneuf-du-Pape) * South West France: Clos La Coutale, Clos de Gamot, Clos Lapeyre, Clos Triguedina ( Cahors)

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

* Vaud: Clos des Abbayes, Clos des Moines ( Dézaley), Clos du Paradis ( Aigle), Clos du Rocher, Clos des Rennauds ( Yvorne) * Valais: Clos Grand Brûlé, Clos des Montibeux ( Leytron), Clos de Balavaud ( Vétroz)

Germany

Rheingau The Rheingau (; ) is a region on the northern side of the Rhine between the German towns of Wiesbaden and Lorch near Frankfurt, reaching from the Western Taunus to the Rhine. It is situated in the German state of Hesse and is part of the Rheing ...

: Hattenheimer Pfaffenberg and Steinberg ( Eberbach Abbey),

Neroberg Neroberg is a hill in Wiesbaden in Hesse Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urba ...

( Wiesbaden) * Rheinhessen: Schlossmühle in Heidesheim,

Niersteiner Glöck Niersteiner Glöck is a wall-enclosed vineyard (a ''Clos (vineyard), Clos'', using French terminology) in Nierstein in Rheinhessen (wine region), Rheinhessen, Germany.

United States

* Napa Valley: Clos Du Val, Clos Pegase * Sonoma Valley: Clos Du Bois

South Africa

* Stellenbosch: Clos Malverne

México

* Valle de Guadalupe: Clos de Tres Cantos

References

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