page_title: Lieu-dit
hierarchical_section_title: Lieu-dit
caption_attribution_description: English: Three bottles of red Corton wine from different producers and different vintages.
context_page_description: Lieu-dit is a French toponymic term for a small geographical area bearing a traditional name. The name usually refers to some characteristic of the place, its former use, a past event, etc. A lieu-dit may be uninhabited, which distinguishes it from an hameau, which is inhabited.
  In Burgundy, the term climat is used interchangeably with lieu-dit.
context_section_description: Lieu-dit (plural: lieux-dits) (literally said-location) is a French toponymic term for a small geographical area bearing a traditional name. The name usually refers to some characteristic of the place, its former use, a past event, etc. A lieu-dit may be uninhabited, which distinguishes it from an hameau (hamlet), which is inhabited.
  In Burgundy, the term climat is used interchangeably with lieu-dit.
caption: Three bottles of red Corton AOC wine, from the same appellation, showing different usages of lieu-dit (climat) designations on labels, in addition to the appellation's name. On the left, a wine with no indication of specific lieu-dit, in the middle a wine where Le Rognet is indicated in small print, and on the right a wine from Les Renardes, written hyphenated with Corton as "Corton-Renardes".
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