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This division of the vineyards led directly to the system used in Burgundy today hundreds of growers sell their grapes to négociants, or buyers, who use the grapes to make wine.įollowing Bordeaux's 1855 Classification, Beaune's Agricultural Committee developed its own classification system for the area now known as the Côte d'Or. These privately-owned vineyards were divided and re-divided under Napoleonic law, which forced families to split holdings among heirs instead of willing all inheritable property to one descendant. Vineyards shifted from Church ownership to individual owners during the Renaissance, and, in the aftermath of the French Revolution some 300 years later, all remaining Church vineyards were privatized.

It was during this period that pinot noir became the red wine grape of choice in Burgundy. Catholic monks cultivated vineyards during the Middle Ages, and the ruling Dukes of Burgundy involved themselves in the grape-growing process in an effort to improve the quality (and, no doubt, export value) of Burgundy wines.

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