Other than drinking and discussing the wines, there’s nothing so valuable as looking at maps to try and find that elusive vineyard. Perhaps it is only Piedmont that comes close to to the diversity of vineyards found in the Côte d’Or. With the exception of the map of Volnay, courtesy and copyright of Kobrand Education this table is a super ‘cartographical resource’ for which I offer them and the artist Michael Juhn many thanks.
The maps are in PDF format, and most are less than 100kb in size : 
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| Aloxe | Auxey | Beaune | Chambolle | Chassagne | |||||
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| Flagey | Gevrey | Marsannay | Meursault | Morey | |||||
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| Nuits | Pernand | Pommard | Puligny | Santenay | |||||
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| Savigny | Volnay | Vosne | Vougeot |
Linked with their ownership of Louis Jadot, Kobrand also offer here a rather nice webpage that allows you to navigate through maps of the Côte d’Or.
- Here’s a more in-depth look at the Clos de Vougeot (80kb).
- An 1890 map of the Musigny vineyard and it’s ownership (100kb).
- Burgundy 1640. You need to look in the top left hand corner for ‘Nuis’ (850kb).
Bill,
I have one word: Volnay! Why is it that Kobrand and indeed most other resources have no map of this wonderful village? There is one at http://www.bivb.com, but it isn’t very detailed…
I do have an old one Mike – I’ll get it online as time permits!
Cheers
Hello Bill,
Did you notice that the colours of the maps do not correspond to the legend?
I wanted to use some of the maps but I have to copy them into paint and repaint them.
Cheers,
Cristina
Hi Cristina,
Hope you’re well. Yep, lots and lots of mistakes/errors on the maps I’m afraid – that’s what you get for ‘cheap’ – or in this case free!
Bill
GREAT Resource….
Thanks for the time it took to put this together!
Where is Premeaux? A significant amount of Nuits St georges seem to be missing (clos de la Marechale…) or have I missed something?
You’re not missing anything Antoine, the provider of my maps simply didn’t have one for Premeaux – indicating they didn’t have a lot of wines from that village
[...] these pages, the ‘Map Resource‘ is one of most people’s favourite stopping-off points. It’s far from perfect [...]
About : Gevrey-Chambertin map
Legend is wrong :
Gevrey-Chambertin Grand cru must be Gevrey-Chambertin
Gevrey-Chambertin must be Gevrey-Chambertin Grand-Cru
I will have to disable the comments here if everybody wants to keep telling me about the mistakes on maps that I already said have mistakes in
[the maps are somebody-else's copyright...]
There is a selection of maps as PDFs on the Official ‘Burgundy Wines’ website which I find useful- although still no Premeaux that I can see, Volnay is available.
The title page can be found here:
http://www.burgundy-wines.fr/find-out-about/and-their-wines/their-wines/their-wines,216,157.html?
Hello,
Another useful resource : http://www.geoportail.fr. Type in for instance “vosne-romanée”, and then chhose among different “couches” (layers) :
- “IGN” is a helpful one if you want to plan a bike ride in the vineyards, or check the altitudes, or the name of a river, etc.
- “geologie” is based on a larger scale, but quite useful as well, for instance if you’re pervert enough to check whether this Chablis is on kimmeridigian, or portlandian (as it should NOT be).
- “Cassini layer” is fun too since it provides maps from the XVIIIth or XIXth century.
- “cadastre” is : who owns what ? No name given online but you see the size of the properties.
Personnaly, I find it interesting to combine IGN + cadastre in order to check the real exposition of a terroir.
it’s free, enjoy !
Now that’s cool! The IGN vineyard labels are not always in the correct place, but very cool indeed!
Thanks Florence!
Addendum to my latest post : another useful resource : Maison Bouchard Père et Fils has designed a nice Google Earth map of their numerous properties, to be used at http://www.bouchard-pereetfils.com/google/domaine_fr.php.
Since they’ve identified their own vineyards (mostly in Côte de Beaune of course), it’s a good way of having a 3-D vision, for instance, of the Corton hill and their own Corton vineyard.
In the same range of 3D animation, La Chablisienne has also, for Chablis, a nice and short movie to be seen on their website. It is commercially oriented but that allows viewers to get a good glimpse of the Chablis subtleties regarding Northern orientations, for instance !
Thank you for a very good and informative site on my favourite wine region. Looking through your very good maps, I can’t help thinking that the map of Gevery-Chambertine must have some sort of mix-up in the colour coding. Generic Gevrey and Grand Cru must have been mixed up.
Kind regards,
Øyvind,
[...] are some useful tools to study the geography of villages in Burgundy. Burgundy Report has a great map resource that outlines vineyards in the major Cote d’Or villages. The maps also have contour lines [...]
We are in Beaune this week, arranging biking expeditions. These maps are a great help. Thank you!