Beaujolais wine

The Beaujolais is an area located at the north of Lyon in France, which extends in north from the department from the the Rhone and in the south from the Département from Saône-et-Loire. It is an old French province whose historical capital is Beaujeu and the current capital is Villefranche-sur-Saône (Chef-lieu of district of the Rhone).

History

The Beaujolais wine was initially a baronnie which was had at the 9th century by Guillaume, count of the Lyonnais and count de Forez, dead in 900. With its death, the baronnie échut with his/her son Bérard who it first carried the title of lord ''' of Beaujeu '''. This first house died out in 1265, in the person of Guichard V.

Isabeau, its heiress, married Renaud, count of Drill, who became chief of a new house of lords de Beaujeu, among which one notices Edouard Ier de Beaujeu, Marshal of France. The baronnie of Beaujeu passed, towards 1400, in the Maison of Bourbon, by the transfer that made of it Edouard II of Beaujeu to Louis II of Bourbon, his/her uncle. One of its descendants of this one, Pierre II of Bourbon, lord de Beaujeu, married Anne of France, girl of Louis XI, known under the name of Dame of Beaujeu .

In 1522, the Beaujolais wine, confiscated with the constable of Bourbon, was given to Louise of Savoy, mother of François Ier. Joined together to the crown in 1531, it was returned in 1560 by François II, with Louis III of Montpensier. Marie de Montpensier carried it in dowry, in 1626 with Gaston of Orleans, whose girl, Grande Miss celebrates it, bequeathed it to Philippe of Orleans, brother of Louis XIV.

The Beaujolais wine, set up in county, remained since in the Maison of Orleans. The last prince who carried the title of count of the Beaujolais wine was Louis Charles of Orleans, the third brother of the king Louis-Philippe Ier, born with Paris in 1779 and died in Malta in 1808.

Wine-producing area

It is also an wine-producing area, known for its typical wines, red wines resulting with 99% from the Gamay type of vine.

The Beaujolais wine includes/understands three well differentiated geographical areas:

  • the valley of the Saone, where pass from important transportation routes (road, highway, railway, the channeled Saone), and where activities diversified Industrie are,
  • slopes of the Beaujolais wine, which carry the Vignoble,
  • Green Beaujolais wine: an agricultural activity dominated by the breeding, a forestry die carrying a natural and economic identity strong, a traditional economy in phase of diversification (since the textile towards the metallurgy, the plastic and the agroalimentary one), a tourist activity under development strong

Main feature

The average production amounts to 1,1 million hectolitres per countryside distributed in 12 AOC: Beaujolais wine, Beaujolais wine Villages and 10 Vintages (Morgon, Régnié, Windmill, Coast of Brouilly, Brouilly, Julienas, Saint-Love, Chenas, Chiroubles and Fleurie). Only generic names (two first) can claim with a early product marketing. That one even which is awaited in the whole world each year third Thursday of November at the time of traditional the " beaujolais wine nouveau" !

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