Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet

Venues Bien - Bâtard -Montrachet is a classified as grand cru vineyard in the Côte -d'Or in the Burgundy region in France. It is located in the town of Puligny- Montrachet in the Côte de Beaune. Venues Bien - Bâtard -Montrachet has its own appellation and one with a size of 3.68 ha to the smaller appellation of France. Produced exclusively white wine. Venues Bien - Bâtard -Montrachet is located north or east of the Grand Cru Bâtard -Montrachet, further north includes the Premier Cru Les Pucelle and the east, the Puligny-Montrachet Village layers Les Enseignères and Rue Rousseau on.

Climate and Geology

The vineyard Bien Venues - Bâtard -Montrachet is located on a gentle slope at 245 m above sea level. From late frosts, the situation remains mostly spared. The climate is attributed to the Burgundian transitional climate, outweigh the continental influences over maritime. The Chardonnay thrives excellently in a southeasterly direction.

For the northerly city of Dijon (316 m), 1961-1990 were the following data:

In 2007 was:

In 2008, the following data were collected:

The bottom of the Bien - Venues Bâtard -Montrachet is in the lower part of a thick pad of brown limestone weathering debris. The vines have to drive their roots into the socket from the era of the Bathonian.

Wine

The white wines of the Grand Cru are made ​​from the grape variety Chardonnay. The natural alcoholic strength by volume of at least 11.5 for the whites - be % Chaptalisation is - allowed - as everywhere in Burgundy. The minimum must weight is 178 g / l The base yield is 40 hectoliters per hectare, this value may be exceeded by a maximum of 20%..

The wines are described as delicate and have a fragrance of citrus fruit and some hazelnut and honey.

Production volume

In 2008, a total of 3.53 ha were declared under the name Bien Venues - Bâtard -Montrachet. A total of 146 hectoliters of white wine were produced. This corresponds to almost 20,000 bottles.

Producers and holders

In contrast to the Bordeaux vineyards which are heavily chipped by use of inheritance. Largest owner of 1.16 ha was the Domaine Leflaive in 2008. It was followed by the Domaine Ramonet (0.56 ha), Vincent Girardin (0.47 ha ), Paul Pernot (0.37 ha), Guillemard - Clerc (0.18 ha), Bachelet - Ramonet (0.13 ha), Etienne Sauzet (0.12 ha), Louis Carillon et Fils (0.11 ha ), Jean -Claude Bachelet (0.09 ha) and Barolet - Pernot (0.05 ha).