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Vézelay

Vézelay is an appellation in France, covering 258.7 ha across 4 communes. Regional bedrock: carbonate sedimentary rocks. It lies 12 km west of Avallon and 41 km south of Auxerre.

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Key facts

Type

AOC

Category

Vin tranquille

Area

258.7 ha

Separate plots

4

Extent N–S × E–W

4.78 × 6.37 km

Centre

47.4481° N, 3.7558° E

INAO office

Dijon

Where it is

Nearest town

12 km west of Avallon

Nearest city

41 km south of Auxerre 41,516 people

To the sea

341 km

Same latitude

Rocky Reach (United States), Vin du Québec (Canada)

Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.

Terrain

Elevation

166–334 m

Mean elevation

263 m

Mean slope

10.0° (18 %)

Steepest tenth

above 15°

Faces

south

Measured over the whole outline on 16,792 elevation cells of about 13 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles).

Vintages: Burgundy (red)

Vintages: Burgundy and Chablis (white)

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.

Bedrock

• Carbonate sedimentary rocks (limestone, marl, dolomite)100%

Regional bedrock from the GLiM global lithological map (Hartmann and Moosdorf 2012), not a soil survey.

Communes · 4

• Asquins
• Saint-Pere
• Tharoiseau
• Vezelay

Wineries · 2

• Domaine Camus Frères
• Domaine Eypert

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Sources

INAO, Délimitation parcellaire des AOC viticoles (Licence Ouverte 2.0)

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