Pinot Country

regionSancerre

46.00°N47.00°NSancerre53 km
Sancerre, and what else this directory knows within 240 km.

Better known for sauvignon blanc, and still making red and rosé from pinot noir on the same Kimmeridgian slopes — lighter than Burgundy, good cold.

The story Cited

The Loire's upper reaches answered to the dukes of Burgundy, which is the usual explanation for pinot noir being here at all.

Facts

countryFrance
levelcommune
regionLoire
where47.3300, 2.8400 (town) · OpenStreetMap · open in maps Cited
confidencemedium · updated 2026-09-16

Near here

Straight-line kilometres; the road is always longer. The finder sorts every cellar on the map from wherever you are.

Its kin

the vinePinot noirGrown light, and often drunk chilled.regionBurgundyThe duchy this ground once answered to.

Sources

Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.

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