Clessé (; frp, Cllèssié) is a
commune 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 ...
department
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Government and military
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in the
region
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of
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
France
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.
Wine
Vineyards of Clessé are part of the ''
appellation d'origine contrôlée
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''
Viré-Clessé
Viré-Clessé is an ''Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée'' (AOC) for white wine in the Mâconnais subregion in Burgundy in central France, located in the communes of Clessé, Laizé, Montbellet and Viré. Viré-Clessé has Chardonnay as the only a ...
, which is used for white wines from
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 ...
grapes. Before 1999, the wines used to be called Mâcon-Clessé.
See also
*
Communes of the Saône-et-Loire department
References
Communes of Saône-et-Loire
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