Riceys

Riceys is a common French, located in the department of the Aube and the area Champagne-Ardenne.

Riceys is a village of nature located out of Champagne in the middle of the the Coast of the bars . With these 750.4 hectares of vines, it is the commune which has the most important area under vines of all Champagne.

It is the only wine commune of Champagne to have the 3 appellation contr4ol3ees Champenoise ( AOC ): Rosy Champagne , Slopes Champagne , of Riceys .

Geography

Commune of the South of the Department of the Paddle (10). Riceys are composed of three boroughs: Low Ricey, Ricey High Bank and High Ricey. It is the southernmost commune of name Champagne. The extent and the diversity of its relief characterize this large soil of champagne.

Characteristics of wine geography

The majority of the wines from champagne come from the department of the Marne (on cretaceous grounds), of the valley of the Marne (until the West of Castle-Thierry), and on a series of soils with horse on the grounds Tertiaires and Cretaceous (Avize, Vertus, Sézanne…)

The Champagnes of the Paddle are very offset, very southernmost, compared to other Champagnes, and are on Jurassic grounds. They are thus particular champagnes. This surface of Champagnes of the Paddle gathers other common neighbors of Riceys, the of which Bar-on-Seine and Bar-sur-Aube.

Their name " Champagne" date in fact from the years 1920, following a revolt of vine growers who wanted to be attached there and not to be regarded as Burgundy more. There exists, in addition to Champagnes, Rosy of Riceys, whose qualities are frankly bourguignones. Who more is, as in Burgundy, the small property dominates, contrary to the more septentrional Champagne vineyards. It should be said that one on space is almost described by Balzac in the Peasants , where it is seen how the intrigues of these rural very claiming lead to the parcelling out of the property and the formation of a scrap-metal.

This geographical fact, precisely, watch which this zone is a curious surface for Champagne: when one follows the road of Montbard (21) towards Ricey, one sees the Burgundian scrap-metal gradually being slackened, to widen. One sees it dying in the approach of the forest of Laignes (21), but it reappears timidly in Riceys.

However, the Champagne term means étymogiquement opened fields, openfield , and is thus opposed by nature to the scrap-metal idea! What a paradox to produce Champagne in a space almost semi-of the woodlands!

Bibliography:

BALZAC (of) H., the peasants , Paris, Garnier-Flammarion, 1970,379 p.

DION R., History of the vine and the wine, Paris, Flammarion, 1959,768p + 15p of boards.

POMEROL C. (to dir.), Soils and wines of France - oenological and geological Routes , Orleans, BRGM, 1990 (3rd edition), 350 p.

Distribution of wine surfaces by type of vine:

History

Ricey-Bas was founded at the time Gallo-Roman, Ricey-High-Bank and Ricey-Haut is more recent.

Riceys date from the Roman epoch when the Boïens (people Gallic) settled there in part of the valley sprinkled by the river of the Laignes, or they créerent the bases of three boroughs called later “Riceys”.

Wine economy

Riceys has 276 owners wine.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

church Saint-Pierre-be-Bonds with the fining of Ricey-Bas
church Saint-Jean-Baptist (in the past Saint-Hinge) with the Ricey-High-Bank fining
Saint-Vincent church with the fining of Ricey-Haut

Personalities related to the commune

Edme Quenedey born on December 17th, 1756 with died Riceys-le-Haut in Paris on February 15th, 1830, portraitist with the Physionotrace

Useful bonds/Sources

Site of the UMC: Union of the Country cottages http://www.maisons-champagne.com/terroirs/villages/les_riceys/les_riceys.htm

See too

Common of the Paddle

External bonds

Riceys on the site of the national geographical Institute
Riceys on the site of INSEE
Riceys on the site of Quid
Localization of Riceys on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Riceys on Mapquest

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