La construction des climats viticoles en Bourgogne, la relation du vin au lieu au Moyen Âge

Climats is the technical term for portions of vineyards delimited and named according to specific wine qualities. They arose from the seventeenth century onwards as a specific terroir meaning in Burgundy. However, tradition still emphasizes the medieval actors of Burgundian viti-viniculture as dukes...

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Main Author: Jean-Pierre Garcia
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Language:fra
Published: Centre de Recherches Historiques 2014-09-01
Series:L'Atelier du CRH
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/acrh/5979
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description Climats is the technical term for portions of vineyards delimited and named according to specific wine qualities. They arose from the seventeenth century onwards as a specific terroir meaning in Burgundy. However, tradition still emphasizes the medieval actors of Burgundian viti-viniculture as dukes and monks as the determinants for the emergence of climats. Therefore it is worth exploring medieval history to decipher the relationship linking wine to place in the Middle Ages: for instance, the way wines were labelled in cellars and storerooms in Dijon. Some monastic communities were not accustomed to differentiating their wine according to the original place in which it grew. Human practices that changed soil qualities were widespread from the Middle Ages to the recent period and testify to paradigmatic.
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La construction des climats viticoles en Bourgogne, la relation du vin au lieu au Moyen Âge
L'Atelier du CRH
Middle Ages
terroir
monks
vineyard
wine
title La construction des climats viticoles en Bourgogne, la relation du vin au lieu au Moyen Âge
title_full La construction des climats viticoles en Bourgogne, la relation du vin au lieu au Moyen Âge
title_fullStr La construction des climats viticoles en Bourgogne, la relation du vin au lieu au Moyen Âge
title_full_unstemmed La construction des climats viticoles en Bourgogne, la relation du vin au lieu au Moyen Âge
title_short La construction des climats viticoles en Bourgogne, la relation du vin au lieu au Moyen Âge
title_sort la construction des climats viticoles en bourgogne la relation du vin au lieu au moyen age
topic Middle Ages
terroir
monks
vineyard
wine
url https://journals.openedition.org/acrh/5979
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