Burgundy Atlas

About

See the place behind the name.

Burgundy is a landscape of names: villages, Grand Crus, Premier Crus, lieux-dits. Most people meet them on a label and can’t picture them. Burgundy Atlas turns a name into land you can see: a boundary, a slope, a neighborhood, and the sources behind them.

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The Le Clos Saint-Jacques vineyard outline lifted above an iPhone

In the app

  • Le Clos Saint-Jacques terrain model rising above an iPhoneSee Burgundy in relief. Turn a modeled 3D view of a vineyard’s terrain.
  • Le Clos Saint-Jacques and Les Amoureuses compared at the same scaleTwo vineyards. One scale. Set two sites side by side at the same scale.
  • The Gevrey-Chambertin village profileRead a village at a glance. See a village’s classifications, elevation, and aspect.
  • A producer catalog map for Domaine FourrierA producer, mapped. Follow a producer’s catalog wines to the places they name.

Shown in the iPhone app.

Coverage

Current coverage figures load from the published releases.

Each figure counts a different kind of record, so they don’t add up to one total.

How it’s built

Every boundary, name, and figure comes from a named source, such as the French land register, INAO, and IGN, and each record keeps its own identity. A parcel, a named place, and a wine designation can share a name and still be three different things.

A map is context, not proof. It doesn’t establish who owns, farms, bottles from, or produces wine from a parcel. The Atlas shows only the relationships supported by its published sources. How it works

Who makes it

Burgundy Atlas is the first regional atlas from Wine Atlas, a platform for exploring the places behind wine. It’s made by Le 1er Crew. Write to us at le1ercrew@gmail.com.

See it for yourself.

Open a village, a vineyard, or a named place, and read the land behind the name.

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