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Walled vineyard
Clos de Vougeot
A clos (French 'enclosure'
[1] ) is a walled
vineyard .
[2] Walled vineyards protected the grapes from
theft and may improve the
mesoclimate . They were often the vineyards of
Cistercian monasteries. The word is often used in the name of famous wines even when the wall no longer exists.
By country
Bordeaux :
Château Léoville-Las Cases ,
Clos Haut-Peyraguey ,
Clos Fourtet , Clos des Jacobins, Clos de l'Oratoire, Clos de Plince, Clos Saint-Martin
Burgundy : Clos Napoléon (
Fixin ),
Chambertin-Clos de Bèze ,
Clos de Tart ,
Clos des Lambrays ,
Clos de la Roche ,
Clos Saint-Denis ,
La Romanée together with
La Romanée-Conti ,
Clos de Vougeot , Clos des Réas (
Vougeot ),
Corton -Clos du Roi, Clos des Ursules, Clos des Mouches (
Beaune ), Clos des Épeneaux (
Pommard ), Clos du Val (
Auxey-Duresses ), Clos des Chênes (
Volnay ),
Montrachet
Champagne : Clos des Goisses (
Mareuil-sur-Aÿ ), Clos du Mesnil (
Le Mesnil-sur-Oger ; see
Champagne Krug ), Clos Saint Hilaire (
Mareuil-sur-Aÿ ; see
Billecart-Salmon )
Alsace : Clos Sainte-Hune in
Grand Cru
Rosacker (
Hunawihr ), Clos Sainte-Odile (
Obernai ), Clos Saint-Urbain (Turkheim)
Loire : Clos de la Coulée-de-Serrant, Clos du Papillon (
Savennières ), Le Grand Clos (
Bourgueil )
Rhône : Clos des Papes, Clos du Mont-Olivet, Clos de l'Oratoire des Papes (
Châteauneuf-du-Pape )
South West France : Clos La Coutale, Clos de Gamot, Clos Lapeyre,
[3] Clos Triguedina (
Cahors )
Vaud : Clos des Abbayes, Clos des Moines (
Dézaley ), Clos du Paradis (
Aigle ), Clos du Rocher, Clos des Rennauds (
Yvorne )
Valais : Clos Grand Brûlé, Clos des Montibeux (
Leytron ), Clos de Balavaud (
Vétroz )
Pico ,
Azores : Nearly all of the vineyards on the island of Pico are enclosed by stone walls, both for protection and as a way to re-use the large number of volcanic rocks that had to be shifted off the soil when vines were first planted.
[4]
México
Valle de Guadalupe: Clos de Tres Cantos
References
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