Chorey-les-Beaune

Chorey-les-Beaune

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.

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.

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Population

Historical population of Chorey-les-Beaune
Year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2008
Population 372 422 484 503 508 516 480

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

References

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