Chorey-les-Beaune

Chorey-les-Beaune
Chorey-les-Beaune
Location within Burgundy region  Chorey-les-Beaune
Administration
Country	France
Region	Burgundy
Department	Côte-d'Or
Arrondissement	Beaune
Canton	Beaune-Sud
Intercommunality	Beaune Côte et Sud
Mayor	Daniel Maillard (2001–2008)
Statistics
Elevation	199–245 m (653–804 ft) (avg. 217 m/712 ft)
Land area1	5.59 km2 (2.16 sq mi)
Population2	480  (2008)
- Density	86 /km2 (220 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	21173/ 21200
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Coordinates: 47°02′53″N 4°52′06″E / 47.048°N 4.8683°E / 47.048; 4.8683

Chorey-les-Beaune is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France.

It lies northeast of the city of Beaune on the plain of the Saône just to the east of the A31 autoroute.

Population

Historical population of Chorey-les-Beaune

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2008
372	422	484	503	508	516	480

Wine

Main article: Chorey-les-Beaune wine

Chorely-les-Beaune is one of the wine communes of the Côte de Beaune. The wines of Chorey-les-Beaune grow on the relatively flat land of the Saone plain rather than on the slopes of the Côte d'Or, and for this reason the commune has no Premier Cru (or Grand Cru) vineyards. The soils are composed mostly of Quaternary detrital and alluvial fills and the wines tend to be thinner and less complex than those grown on the Jurassic limestone, gravels and marls of the slopes where the better quality wines of the Côte d'Or come from.^[1]

See also

• Côte de Beaune

References

• INSEE

1. ^ Fanet, Jacuqes Great Wine Terroirs, University of California Press, Berkeley (2004) pp. 39-42.