Appellation · France
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.
Medium-to-full bodied Pinot Noir with black cherry, earth and a firm, slightly rustic tannic frame. Savoury rather than perfumed, and needing five to ten years.
About Nuits-Saint-Georges
Nuits-Saint-Georges is the trading centre of the northern Côte d’Or and the town the whole sub-region is named after. It has forty-one Premier Crus and, unusually, not a single Grand Cru — Les Saint-Georges has been proposed for promotion for decades without resolution.
The wines are sturdy and earthy: darker, firmer and more savoury than Vosne, with less perfume and more grip. They are among the slowest-maturing village wines on the Côte.
The commune divides in two around the town. The northern half, adjoining Vosne, produces the more aromatic wines; the southern half, towards Premeaux, the firmer and more structured ones.
What the name means
- Legal name
- Nuits-Saint-Georges 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.
Grapes
Wines from here
Rules worth knowing
Confirmed in the EU register
Nuits-Saint-Georges is registered as a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), file number PDO-FR-A0579, 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.
- Vosne-Romanée — The village holding Romanée-Conti and six other Grand Crus, and the most expensive patch of vineyard on earth.
- Côte de Beaune — The southern half of the Côte d’Or, and the home of the world’s benchmark oaked Chardonnay.
- Gevrey-Chambertin — The largest village of the Côte de Nuits and the most powerful, with nine Grand Crus including Chambertin itself.
Approximate centroid: 47.14°, 4.95°. 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