In 1930, my Burgundy almanac tells me, the civil court in Dijon ruled that for the purposes of naming wine, vinyards in the departments of the Yvonne, the Cote d’Or, Saone and Loire and the Rhone (the arrondisements of Villefranche-sur-Saone and Beauujolais, could use the name. It has remained thus since.
Ancient verities – so often they aren’t…
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Fortunately, some may think. wine merchants here seem to distinguish between Beaujolais and Burgundy, suggesting perhaps that the market is occasionally wiser than its regulators. One wonders what other areas had claimed the appellation before 1930. You will have noticed that there is a plan afoot to extend the area of “champagne” growing, presumably while there is still a lot of money to be made from lukewarm sparkling wine as a symbol of marital bliss. Perfidious France.