France · AOP

Champagne

Appellation

Champagne is an appellation in France across 312 communes. The rules allow rosé and white wine. Regional bedrock: carbonate sedimentary rocks.

Sparkling wine made by second fermentation in bottle, from Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Meunier on chalk and marl. The historic échelle des crus ranks 17 villages as grand cru and 42 as premier cru.

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Key facts

Type: AOP
Category: Quality Sparkling Wine
Protected since: 1973-09-18
Area: 354,439 ha outline of listed communes
Extent N–S × E–W: 164.04 × 136.16 km
Centre: 48.1141° N, 4.5318° E
Grapes: Arbane, Chardonnay, Meunier, Petit Meslier, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir
Irrigation: Prohibited

Where it is

Nearest town: 18 km south-west of Bar-sur-Aube
Nearest city: 39 km south-east of Troyes 60,785 people
To the sea: 351 km
Rivers nearby: Seine (11 km) · Aube (20 km)
Lakes nearby: Orient (22 km)
Same latitude: Puget Sound (United States)

Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.

Terrain

Elevation: 51–372 m
Mean elevation: 186 m

Measured over the whole outline on 22,673 elevation cells of about 404 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.