Beaujolais Beaujeu is a named sub-zone of Beaujolais in France, covering 587.9 ha in Beaujeu. That is 1.5% of the Beaujolais appellation area. The rules allow red, rosé and white wine, based on Gamay and Chardonnay. Regional bedrock: acid volcanic rocks. It lies 14 km north-west of Belleville and 20 km north of Villefranche-sur-Saône.
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Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.
Measured over the whole outline on 35,607 elevation cells of about 13 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles).
Atlas editorial scores: a consensus of widely published vintage reports, not one critic's view. Scores for 2023 and 2024 are early and can change as the wines develop. Scale 1 to 5.
Regional bedrock from the GLiM global lithological map (Hartmann and Moosdorf 2012), not a soil survey.
INAO, Délimitation parcellaire des AOC viticoles (Licence Ouverte 2.0)
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