page_title: Auxey-Duresses wine
section_title: Premiers Crus
hierarchical_section_title: Auxey-Duresses wine / Premiers Crus
caption_attribution_description: English: Constantin Stratan
context_page_description: Auxey-Duresses wine is produced in the commune of Auxey-Duresses in Côte de Beaune of Burgundy. The Appellation d'origine contrôlée Auxey-Duresses may be used for red and white wine with respectively Pinot noir and Chardonnay as the main grape variety. The production consists of around two-thirds red wine, and one-third white wine. There are no Grand Cru vineyards within Auxey-Duresses. The AOC Auxey-Duresses was created in 1970. Before the introduction of the appellation system in the 1930s, wines from this village were probably sold under the names of the more famous neighbors Volnay and Meursault. Later, the wines have been sold as Côte de Beaune-Villages, but it has progressively become more common to actually use the Auxey-Duresses AOC for the wines.
context_section_description: There are nine climats in Auxey-Duresses classified as Premier Cru vineyards, all located on a roughly south-facing slope of the hill la Montagne du Burdon, close to the border of Monthélie. The wines of these vineyards are designated Auxey-Duresses Premier Cru + vineyard name, or may labelled just Auxey-Duresses Premier Cru, in which case it is possible to blend wine from several Premier Cru vineyards within the AOC.
  In 2007, 28.63 hectares (70.7 acres) of the total Auxey-Duresses vineyard surface consisted of Premier Cru vineyards, of which 25.83 hectares (63.8 acres) red and 2.80 hectares (6.9 acres) white Auxey-Duresses Premier Cru. The annual production of Premier Cru wine, as a five-year average, is 1,121 hectoliter of red wine and 103 hectoliter of white wine.
  The climats classified as Premiers Crus are:
  Climat du Val
  Clos du Val
  Les Bréterins
  La Chapelle
  Reugne
  Les Duresses
  Bas des Duresses
  Les Grands Champs
  Les Écusseaux
caption: Chardonnay is the primary grape for the white wines of Auxey-Duresses
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