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 "schema": 1,
 "id": "climat",
 "type": "term",
 "names": {
  "name": "Climat"
 },
 "etymology": {
  "root": "French climat, from Latin clima, Greek klima — a slope, a zone of the sky; the Burgundian sense is a named plot",
  "note": "the everyday French word for climate is the same word, which confuses every visitor",
  "tier": "tradition"
 },
 "region": [
  "burgundy"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "letter": "C",
  "kind": "vineyard"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "In Burgundy, a named parcel of vineyard with a boundary, a history and a reputation — not a weather word. There are over a thousand of them on the Côte d'Or, and UNESCO listed the lot in 2015.",
  "how": "A climat is drawn on the ground, and the appellation rank is attached to it. Two neighbouring climats can differ by a rank and by a factor of ten in price."
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "burgundy",
   "as": "The region that counts in these units.",
   "rel": "region"
  },
  {
   "to": "lieu-dit",
   "as": "The wider French term a climat is a particular case of.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "to": "clos-de-vougeot",
   "as": "One name, fifty hectares, and a lesson about what a climat does not tell you.",
   "rel": "vineyard"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:unesco-1425",
  "s:wp-burgundy-wine"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited"
  }
 },
 "recognitions": [
  {
   "by": "unesco",
   "what": "The Climats, terroirs of Burgundy, World Heritage List 1425",
   "year": 2015,
   "source": "s:unesco-1425"
  }
 ],
 "confidence": "high",
 "updated": "2026-09-16",
 "blurb": "In Burgundy, a named parcel of vineyard with a boundary, a history and a reputation — not a weather word. There are over a thousand of them on the Côte d'Or, and UNESCO listed the lot in 2015.",
 "region_terms": [
  {
   "key": "burgundy",
   "name": "Burgundy",
   "country": "France",
   "note": "the Côte d'Or and its neighbours; the grape's home ground and its reference set"
  }
 ],
 "kin_out": [
  {
   "to": "burgundy",
   "type": "region",
   "name": "Burgundy",
   "as": "The region that counts in these units.",
   "rel": "region"
  },
  {
   "to": "lieu-dit",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "Lieu-dit",
   "as": "The wider French term a climat is a particular case of.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "to": "clos-de-vougeot",
   "type": "vineyard",
   "name": "Clos de Vougeot",
   "as": "One name, fifty hectares, and a lesson about what a climat does not tell you.",
   "rel": "vineyard"
  }
 ],
 "source_list": [
  {
   "id": "s:unesco-1425",
   "kind": "org",
   "title": "The Climats, terroirs of Burgundy — World Heritage List 1425",
   "publisher": "UNESCO World Heritage Centre",
   "url": "https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1425/",
   "note": "inscribed 2015"
  },
  {
   "id": "s:wp-burgundy-wine",
   "kind": "encyclopaedia",
   "title": "Burgundy wine",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?curid=715978",
   "permalink": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365731507",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "licence": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
  }
 ],
 "tiers": {
  "text.what": {
   "tier": "cited"
  },
  "text.how": {
   "tier": "cited"
  },
  "etymology": {
   "tier": "cited"
  }
 },
 "primary_image": null,
 "tag_facts": [],
 "recognition_facts": [
  {
   "key": "unesco",
   "label": "UNESCO World Heritage",
   "what": "The Climats, terroirs of Burgundy, World Heritage List 1425",
   "url": "",
   "year": 2015,
   "source": "s:unesco-1425"
  }
 ],
 "acclaim": 1,
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "burgundy",
   "type": "region",
   "name": "Burgundy",
   "as": "The word for a named parcel, and the unit the whole system counts in.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "from": "clos-de-vougeot",
   "type": "vineyard",
   "name": "Clos de Vougeot",
   "as": "The unit this vineyard is usually held up to explain — and to complicate.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "from": "aubert-de-villaine",
   "type": "person",
   "name": "Aubert de Villaine",
   "as": "The unit he argued was heritage.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "from": "cru",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "Cru",
   "as": "The plot a cru rank is attached to here.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "from": "lieu-dit",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "Lieu-dit",
   "as": "Burgundy's own word for the ranked version.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "from": "terroir",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "Terroir",
   "as": "The unit Burgundy uses to make the claim specific.",
   "rel": "kin"
  }
 ]
}