La Grande Rue

La Grande Rue 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 Vosne -Romanée, has an area of 1.65 hectares and its own appellation. Produced exclusively red wine.

Location, climate and soil

The vineyard La Grande Rue is on a slightly rising in the eastern slope 255-300 m above sea level. To the north it borders the famous vineyards of La Romanée and Romanée -Conti. East of the situation comes almost immediately to the village of Vosne. In the south of the Grand Cru La Tache is. La Grande Rue is a monopoly situation of Domaine François Lamarche.

The climate is associated with the Burgundian transitional climate, outweigh the continental influences over maritime. The mostly dry and hot summer, let the Pinot noir mature though, great vintages emerge only when there is no rain in the fall affects the reading. Due to the pure east facing the micro-climate is relatively cool but very sunny. Exactly located below the notch of the Combe de Concoeur, La Grande Rue is being protected from nocturnal fall winds and late frosts.

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

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The higher part of the vineyard rests on a Oolithsockel from the Bathonian. The underbody of the deeper part of the document is on Premeaux limestone. The brown, clayey - calcareous Rendzinaschicht of La Tache is significantly thinner in the upper part than in the lower. In the lowest range of the position fossiliferous marls Bajocian is open. The numerous limestones store the heat of the day and radiate it at night back to the vines from. They also provide good drainage.

Wine

The wine of La Grande Rue is generally produced exclusively from Pinot noir. As another Pinot and Pinot Liébault Beurot are allowed. Theoretically, up to 15 % white grapes ( Chardonnay, Pinot gris and Pinot blanc) are used. The natural alcohol content must be at least 11.5 percent by volume. The Chaptalisation is - as everywhere in Burgundy - allowed. In the case of an artificial enrichment by dry sugar a maximum alcohol content of 14.5 ° is fixed. The base yield is 35 hectoliters per hectare per year, may be exceeded by a maximum of 20%.

History

In the 19th century the wines of La Grande Rue enjoyed an excellent reputation and the prices of the wines were those of the direct neighboring layers equal. When the individual layers of Burgundy were classified in the 1930s, the family Lamarche missed the submission of a dossier. As a result, the position of the status of Grand Cru was denied.

Only François Lamarche tried in the 1980s to correct the situation. On 14 November 1989, the INAO said the situation to the desired state. The status was legally confirmed on 2 July 1992.