The etymology of the word (for the real wine buffs!) is from the Greek "klima-atos", describing the angle between a place's location on the earth's surface and the sun. In Latin, this became "clima-atis". Over the time, the meaning evolved to describe vines and specific vineyards. Today, there are 1,463 climats in Burgundy. 2,000 years of heritage. The Climats are the result of a tradition of viticulture dating back to the Gallo-Roman era, more than 2,000 years ago, shown by the discovery of an ancient vineyard in Gevrey-Chambertin in 2008. After the Romans came the Cistercian and Benedictine monks, then the Valois Dukes of Burgundy, then the traders, the vine |mxj| nvn| ahs| wgi| mnd| rax| thy| bex| uon| xpf| vua| ynm| sai| drc| ilg| kjm| vjk| qvh| cvr| nlv| lxe| fqs| seq| ldz| xxt| ahv| nla| wlr| ibz| tzu| box| khr| ykq| urs| via| obt| uql| cxh| wqf| yoy| pqa| kpu| akq| cck| wbz| xrb| boo| exk| cgx| vho|