Appellation · France
Gevrey-Chambertin
The largest village of the Côte de Nuits and the most powerful, with nine Grand Crus including Chambertin itself.
Medium-to-full bodied Pinot Noir, darker and firmer than most red Burgundy, with black cherry, liquorice and a gamey, forest-floor savouriness. High acidity, fine but noticeable tannin, and a decade of life in good vintages.
About Gevrey-Chambertin
Gevrey-Chambertin is the northernmost of the great Côte de Nuits villages and the largest by area. It has nine Grand Crus, more than any other commune in Burgundy.
The style is the most robust in the Côte de Nuits: deeper coloured, firmer, more structured than Chambolle or Vosne, with black cherry and a savoury, gamey depth that arrives with age. These are the Burgundies that most resemble what a reader expecting "a serious red wine" has in mind.
The village hyphenated its most famous vineyard onto its own name in 1847, and most of the Côte followed. That is why so many Burgundian villages have double-barrelled names: Chambolle-Musigny, Vosne-Romanée, Puligny-Montrachet and the rest all appended a Grand Cru.
A practical consequence: "Gevrey-Chambertin" on a label is the village wine and "Chambertin" is the Grand Cru, and the price difference between them is roughly tenfold. The names are one word apart.
What the name means
- Legal name
- Gevrey-Chambertin AOC
- Type
- Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée / Protégée (AOC / AOP)
- Set by
- INAO
- Regulates
- Origin, plus grape varieties, maximum yields, minimum ageing.
The delimited area, permitted varieties, maximum yields, minimum alcohol, pruning and training methods, and in many cases minimum ageing. Administered by INAO.
The village appellation. Nine Grand Crus within the commune — among them Chambertin and Chambertin-Clos de Bèze — are separate appellations that do not carry the village name in the same way.
Grapes
Wines from here
Rules worth knowing
Confirmed in the EU register
Gevrey-Chambertin is registered as a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), file number PDO-FR-A0168, protected at EU level since 1973.
Article 107 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013
Only the rules that change what to expect in the glass or on the label. WineHQ does not reproduce production specifications, and each entry carries the date it was last checked because appellation rules change.
The designation is confirmed above. WineHQ has not read this appellation’s production specification, so it publishes no yields, ageing minima or permitted-variety lists for it — those come from the document linked above, not from a summary of it.
What to eat, and how to serve it
Derived from this region’s signature styles. Each is listed separately, because a region does not have one serving temperature.
Red Burgundy
Serve at 14–16°C (cellar cool).
Try with fillet steak, mushroom pasta or steak with béarnaise.
Where to go next
Places worth trying if you like this one — neighbours, rivals, and the obvious step across.
- Morey-Saint-Denis — A small village between Gevrey and Chambolle whose wines sit stylistically between them, with five Grand Crus in barely a hundred hectares.
- Chambolle-Musigny — The most delicate and perfumed of the Côte de Nuits villages, and the usual reference for what people mean by finesse in Pinot Noir.
- Vosne-Romanée — The village holding Romanée-Conti and six other Grand Crus, and the most expensive patch of vineyard on earth.
- Nuits-Saint-Georges — The commercial town that gave the Côte de Nuits its name, with forty-one Premier Crus and no Grand Cru at all.
Approximate centroid: 47.23°, 4.97°. WineHQ stores coordinates only where it has them, and does not estimate boundaries it has not sourced.
Sources
Sources consulted
- Institut national de l’origine et de la qualité (INAO) — INAO, France
- Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB) — Bureau Interprofessionnel des Vins de Bourgogne