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Coteaux champenois

Appellation

Coteaux champenois is an appellation in France across 312 communes. The rules allow red, rosé and white wine. Regional bedrock: carbonate sedimentary rocks.

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Key facts

Type
AOP
Category
Wine
Protected since
1976-03-29
Area
354,439 ha registered outline
Separate plots
10
Extent N–S × E–W
164.04 × 136.16 km
Centre
48.1141° N, 4.5318° E
Grapes
Arbane, Chardonnay, Meunier, Petit Meslier, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir
Irrigation
Prohibited

Where it is

Nearest town
18 km south-west of Bar-sur-Aube
Nearest city
39 km south-east of Troyes 60,785 people
To the sea
351 km
Rivers nearby
Seine (11 km) · Aube (20 km)
Lakes nearby
Orient (22 km)
Same latitude
Puget Sound (United States)

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

Terrain

Elevation
51–372 m
Mean elevation
186 m

Measured over the whole outline on 22,673 elevation cells of about 404 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Wines and grape rules

Coteaux Champenois Red
ArbaneChardonnayMeunierPetit MeslierPinot BlancPinot GrisPinot Noir
Coteaux Champenois Rosé
ArbaneChardonnayMeunierPetit MeslierPinot BlancPinot GrisPinot Noir
Coteaux Champenois White
ArbaneChardonnayMeunierPetit MeslierPinot BlancPinot GrisPinot Noir

Vintages: Champagne

305
406
307
508
409
210
211
512
413
314
415
316
217
418
519
420
221
422
323
224

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

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

Communes · 312

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Wineries · 72

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Sources

EU register of geographical indications

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