TN: Chassagne with lobster

Hi Dale, Please excuse my ignorance, but what is this wine of which you speak? We have home prepared lobster on Valentine's Day and New Year's eve, but always with bubbles (usually domestic, other, and occasionally a "real" Champagne).

BTW: I've never met a lobster I didn't like.

Just curious' Dick in MN

It's white burgundy aka chardonnay.

A correction, if I may:

Chassagne and Puligny are the names of two villages in the Cote do Beaune. The villages get the name of their most famous vineyard, Montrachet, hyphenated to them. So the Villages are called Chassagne-Montrachet and Puligny-Montrachet. Chassagne-Montrachet and Puligny-Montrachet don't flank the Montrachet vineyard; rather about half of Montrachet is within each of those two villages.

Chassagne-Montrachet and Puligny-Montrachet are *not* the names of vineyards, unlike Montrachet itself and the two other hyphenated

-Montrachet names, Batard-Montrachet and Chevalier-Montrachet.

Again, Montrachet is the name of a vineyard, not a district.

Yes, the vineyard is very small--as you say, about 20 acres.

Yes, they are touching each other, but more than "roughly." They are adjacent to each other. They touch both within the Montrachet vineyard and outside it.

If I may describe it by means of an analogy: visualize a football field and call the left half of it, up to the 50-yard line, Chassagne (or Chassagne-Montrachet), and the right half of it Puligny (or Puligny-Montrachet. Now draw a circle smaller than the width of the football field, centered on the 50-yard line. That circle is the Montrachet vineyard--half within Chassagne and half within Puligny.

And scattered around the rest of the field are other vineyards. Batard-Montrachet, like Montrachet, sits on the border between the towns, just south-east of and next to Montrachet itself, Chevalier-Montrachet is on the Puligny side, just north-west of and next to Montrachet itself, and goes right-up to the border. All the other vineyards are here and there within the two towns.

It's white burgundy aka chardonnay.

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Isn't there also a fair amount of red produced in C-M? Graham

Yes ,and until recently, more red than white but for the most part it's better known for it's chardonnay in the US. It still produces almost as much red as white and the reds can be quite good and well priced.

LOL! Sounds good to me too.

Ed Rasimus wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Or, to make it easier, have a look at these maps:

They can be quite boring. Puligny is a tiny village with no more than a bunch of houses, mostly dedicated to winemaking. Chassagne is a bit more disperse, but you do not see many people in the streets in any of them, walls are high...

Yes, they make great wine and there are some interesting restaurants (in Beaune!).

s.

Good maps! Thanks for illustrating what I was trying to describe.