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Gevrey-Chambertin

Vineyards in Gevrey-Chambertin
Location of Gevrey-Chambertin
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CountryFrance
RegionBourgogne-Franche-Comté
DepartmentCôte-d'Or
ArrondissementDijon
CantonGevrey-Chambertin
Government
 • Mayor (2001–2008) Jean-Claude Robert
Area
1
24.77 km2 (9.56 sq mi)
Population
 (1999)
3,258
 • Density130/km2 (340/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
21295 /21220
Elevation212–510 m (696–1,673 ft)
(avg. 287 m or 942 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.


Gevrey-Chambertin is a French commune in Burgundy, in the Côte-d'Or department of France. It lies 15km South of Dijon. This touristic, winemaking village is situated on the Route des Grands Crus on the Côtes de Nuits. The village holds global prestige thanks to the Grand cru Burgundy wine it produces, the most famous of which is Chambertin.

Geography

Gevrey-Chambertin is one of the wine villages of the Côte de Nuits which lies along the foot of the Cote-d'Or escarpment, to the south of Dijon and with the broad Saône valley plain to its east. It produces red Burgundy wine from vineyards at the village, Premier Cru and Grand Cru level.

This satellite photograph shows Gevrey Chambertin in its context. The village is just to the north of centre. The strip of vineyards on the slope of the Côte d'Or lies north and south in the centre while to its west is the woodland on the Jurassic limestone hills. In the plain of the Saône to the east, the large fields are visible. The curving line is the autoroute, A31. To the west of this, the straight line through the village is the railway from Dijon to the South with a large marshalling yard (Gevrey-Triage). The north-south line of property boundaries to the east of the A31 appears to be the line of a Roman road from Dijon to the southern end of the Forest of Cîteaux, to the south of the abbey.

Demographic Development (Source: INSEE[1])
1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006
2517 2613 3001 2582 2825 3258 3138
Number recorded beginning in 1962 : Population without duplication

History

Origins

As in England, Ile de France and in the South of France, vines in Burgundy were planted very early on. Only in Gevrey-Chambertin, however, have archaeological digs been able to find Gallo-Roman vines dating back to the 1st Century BC. The outline of 120 vine stocks was discovered in 2008, during the expansion of a residential development that was updating 300 septic tanks all lined up in an area of 6km2. This archaeological discovery corroborates with texts written by Pliny the Elder and Columella, making it credible that the Gallo-Roman vines in Gevrey-Chambertin were the first vines to be planted in Bourgogne. The vines were planted in rows, just as they would be today, but the choice of land used and its exposure were quite different: the Gallo-Roman vines were planted on planes, as opposed to the coasts that most of today's Côtes de Nuits is grown on. Furthermore, wines made from these vines would have had a different taste, notably because the Gallo-Romans added spices as preservatives.

Heraldry

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Left half: the left half has a gules field, featuring two argent keys in saltire, with a sword overlaying them and trimmed with Or. Right half: the top right half features a square of azure dotted with golden fleurs-de-lis, and has a border of argent and gules; the bottom right half features a square of six Or and azure stripes, bordered with a gules field.]]

Administration

List of mayors
Period Name Party Background
March 2001 Jean-Claude Robert French Socialist Party Councillor
Earlier data are not known 
Jean-Claude Robert

Winemaking and Gastronomy

The Gevrey-Chambertin wine region on the Route des Grands Crus of Côte de Nuits is one of the most prestigious wine regions in Burgundy. Its prestige even extends to a national and global level, with 310 hectares of pinot noir grapes being made into red wine. The Gevrey-Chambertin wine region only produces 8 of the 33 Burgundy Grand crus AOC wines:

Places and Monuments

Notable People

Photos of the Gevrey-Chambertin Wine Region

International relations and Exchanges

The commune is twinned with Nierstein in the Rheinhessen wine region of Germany, and with the Belgian town Spyin the Namur province. The Albasso choir received the Sarteline choir of Sart-Bernard, Namur, from the 24th to the 25th March 2007. In its turn, the Gevrey-Chambertin choir went to Belgium from the 1st to the 2nd March 2009. A return visit of the Belgian choir to the commune is currently being discussed.

See Also

Notes and References

  1. ^ http://www.recensement.insee.fr/searchResults.action?zoneSearchField=&codeZone=21295-COM
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gevrey-Chambertin.
  • Gevrey-Chambertin official website
  • Official site of the community of Gevrey-Chambertin communes *Gevrey-Chambertin Tourist Office
  • Gevrey-Chambertin's entry on the French National Geographic Institute website
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Grand Crus

There are eight grand cru vineyards within or near the boundaries of Gevrey-Chambertin. These include

Photos of the vinyards of Gevrey Chambertin

See also

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