Burgundy Wines

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 557

Burgundy Wines are chiefly the produce of vineyards cultivated on the hilly lands forming the Côte-d'Or, and rank amongst the finest in the world. The wines of Upper Burgundy, and the wines of Lower Burgundy (Yonne), Macon, and Beaujolais, are other two groups of Burgundies. The finest of the white Burgundy is Mont Râchet; Chablis is a white wine of Lower Burgundy. Beaune is the centre of the trade. The most celebrated of the red wines of Burgundy are Romanée-Conti, Chambertin, Richebourg, Clos-Vougeot.

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