Rully is a

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in the

Saône-et-Loire Saône-et-Loire (; Arpitan: ''Sona-et-Lêre'') is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in France. It is named after the rivers Saône and Loire, between which it lies, in the country's central-eastern part. Saône-et-Loire is Bo ...

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in the

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Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (; , sometimes abbreviated BFC; Arpitan: ''Borgogne-Franche-Comtât'') is a region in Eastern France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions, from a merger of Burgundy and Franche-Comté. The new region ...

in eastern

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. It is known for its red and white

Rully wine Rully wine is produced in the communes of Rully and Chagny in the Côte Chalonnaise subregion of Burgundy. The ''Appellation d'origine contrôlée'' (AOC) Rully may be used for red and white wine with respectively Pinot noir and Chardonnay as ...

s made from

Pinot noir Pinot Noir () is a red-wine grape variety of the species ''Vitis vinifera''. The name may also refer to wines created predominantly from pinot noir grapes. The name is derived from the French language, French words for ''pine'' and ''black.' ...

and

Chardonnay Chardonnay (, , ) is a green-skinned grape variety used in the production of white wine. The variety originated in the Burgundy wine region of eastern French wine, France, but is now grown wherever wine is produced, from English wine, Englan ...

respectively. The

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legal area encompasses the village of Chagny as well as Rully itself, contains over twenty

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designated sub-areas, and borders the

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appellations of

Bouzeron Bouzeron () is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. Geography Bouzeron is a wine-growing village located near Chagny. It is from Beaune and from Chalon-sur-Saône. Wine Bouzeron ...

to the west and

Mercurey Mercurey () is a Communes of France, commune in the Saône-et-Loire Departments of France, department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Regions of France, region of eastern France. The village dates from pre-historic times and is the most widely r ...

to the south.www.terroir-france.com
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