(If the Cité does no more than get a clear understanding of this term and its wide use across to non-French-speaking visitors, then they will have achieved something.) A bold move
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It underpins everything that Burgundians hold special about their beloved vineyards, so it is worth quoting in full from the Cité brochure (retaining the capitals and italics used there), to avoid confusion:Īny who have grappled with this might well ask, “Why no mention of lieu-dit?” which can best be called a “named place.” The two can be used almost interchangeably, though climat is seen as the senior term, with greater historical gravitas. Native Burgundians have an intense love affair with the word, and prolonged exposure to its use has engendered in me a reasonable degree of understanding, but I can still appreciate the struggle the first-time visitor endures when grappling with it. First up, it does not mean “climate” and second, it is pronounced klee-mah, with a lift on the second syllable. This makes sense but throws up another difficulty in the shape of climat. In time, perhaps the cumbrous name could be topped and tailed, leaving Climats et Vins. Cité du Vin would appear to be the obvious solution, and it rolls easily off the tongue, but it is already taken by Bordeaux. The French have a penchant for elongated names that cover all bases but that are otherwise heavy-hooved. Second time, I could joke at my previous discomfiture, as I opened it up and put it on before donning the obligatory hard hat for a follow-up visit to the Cité des Climats et Vins de Bourgogne in Beaune. Only when I saw some other visitors tugging it apart and pulling it into something resembling a head shape did I cop on and quickly follow suit. Compressed into a slim, limp sausage of white fabric that was handed to all visitors, it looked like a draft excluder in miniature. Raymond Blake takes a tour of the Cité des Climats et Vins de Bourgogne, Burgundy’s awkwardly named but impressively constructed new trio of visitor centers in Chablis, Beaune, and Mâcon as they prepare to open their doors for the first time this spring.įirst time around, the hairnet had me fooled.
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