Roussette du Bugey Montagnieu is a named sub-zone of Roussette du Bugey in France, covering 123.9 ha in Briord, Montagnieu and Seillonnaz. That is 3.3% of the Roussette du Bugey appellation area. The rules allow white wine, based on Altesse. Regional bedrock: carbonate sedimentary rocks. It lies 15 km west of Belley and 50 km east of Lyon.
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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 29,057 elevation cells of about 7 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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