Beaune 1^er Cru Champs Pimont- 2020

Etymology

In Beaune, these are ancient fields, large plots following the gentle slope of the Montagne de Beaune. The highest of them is situated below the lieu-dit Montée Rouge, where the slope is steeper. “Pimont” comes from the term Piémont “the foot of the mount” or the medieval Latin PEDEMONTIUM which translates to Italian as “piè-di-monte”; it is used to name several Burgundian climats and lieux-dits. It is also used in Italy especially in the northwestern region of Piedmont which bridges a part of the Alps and the Pô plain. Champ(s) : masculine noun, 11th century – from the Latin CAMPUS “flat land, plain, cultivated plain, field”. The Latin word CAMPUS has gradually replaced the Latin word AGER “fields, land, farm land”. It designates a certain surface area, a flat and open space, fit for cereal farming. We have noticed that the climats and lieux-dits bearing this name, or whose name begins with the word “Champ(s)”, usually cover large easy-to-plough surface areas. The fields enabled the farmers to provide for their needs and to feed their cattle which were plentiful in the villages of the Côte. The fifty or so climats or lieux-dits which use this name to designate a plot, cultivated or not, leads us to imagine what the Burgundy Côte countryside may have looked like before the vine became predominant.

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