Morey-Saint-Denis

Morey-Saint-Denis is a common French, located at 17 km at the south of Dijon and 7 km in the north of Nuits-Saint-Georges in the department of the Coast-with Or and the area Burgundy.

This tourist and wine village located on the Road of the Great wines between Gevrey-Chambertin and Chambolle-Musigny/VOUGEOT in the Côtes of Nights enjoys a world reputation of prestige thanks to its wines of Burgundy with five great wines and twenty first vintages.

Geography

History

Administration

Demography

Vineyard and gastronomy

The Vignoble of Morey-Saint-Denis on the Route of the Great wines in the Côtes of Nights is one of most prestigious Vignoble of Burgundy and even of the French and world vineyard with a surface of 150 Hectare S of Cépage black Pinot vinified out of red wine including 40 Hectare S classified in great wine and 44 Hectare S classified in first vintage. 3,5 Hectare S (that is to say 4%) are planted in Chardonnay which produce white wine name village.

The vineyard of Morey-Saint-Denis has for prestigious neighbors Gevrey-Chambertin in north and Chambolle-Musigny/VOUGEOT in the south and product with him only five of the 32 great wines AOC Bourguignons:

Closed of Tart, Closed Saint-Denis, Closed Rock, Closed of Lambrays and Good Ponds in common with Chambolle-Musigny which has the greatest part of it.

The vineyard of Morey-Saint-Denis also profits from twenty names first vintage and from a name village Morey-Saint-Denis out of red wine and white wine.

The wines of Morey-Saint-Denis are wines of long guard (ten to twenty years and more for the exceptions according to the Millésime), very coloured, powerful, with the intense flavors and savors evoking amongst other things the blackcurrant, Cerise, Musc, Réglisse…

The power of the wines of Morey-Saint-Denis joins a vigorous and elaborate kitchen: Game S, roasted red meat, leg of mutton, Boeuf bourguignon, Stew of rabbit, Coq au vin, Cheese S powerful, époisses (Burgundian Kitchen)

Places and monuments

Very many cellars of wine growers to be visited and high-class wines of Burgundy to taste
Many Burgundian gourmet restaurants
Church of the XVIIIe century

Personalities related to the commune

Photographs of Morey-Saint-Denis

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