History of Burgundy:

The production of wine begun in Burgundy when the Roman invaded the region. Later, during the sixth century one of the nearby kings gave his vineyards to the church. At the time of the French Revolution most of the best Burgundy wines where produced by monasteries.

One of the consequence of the revolution in Burgundy was the confiscation of the vineyards from the church to the republic and their fragmentation in small plots. Nowadays, the system of small vineyard still prevails in Burgundy.

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