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Factually? Or how many we believe should be?
I voted factually but just clarifying.
Factually.
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What about Chablis Grand Cru. I believe that’s a distinct plot (not a named climat though)
If you declassify your Grand Cru or blend multiple Grand Cru vineyards the resulting wine would be called Chablis Premier Cru.
The one exception is Moutonne.
It boils down to semantics I guess. There’s 1 cru with 7 (or 8) climats, each of which contains a large number of separate plots. The answer depends on what you define as a vineyard. Merriam-Webster defines it as “a planting of grapevines”, so the answer could be anything from 1, to the total number of separate plots, depending on how you choose to apply the term.
Officially: 1 Grand Cru: AOC Chablis Grand Cru
Practically: 7 different vineyard designations
Unofficially: an 8th, La Moutonne
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This is what led me astray.
- Area in production:*
1 hectare (ha) = 10,000 m² = 24 ouvrées.
99.67 ha.
Chablis Grand Cru: 1.90 ha.
Blanchot: 12.11 ha.
Bougros: 15.09 ha.
Les Clos: 26.71 ha.
Grenouilles: 8.74 ha.
Preuses: 11.13 ha.
Valmur: 10.62 ha.
Vaudésir: 13.37 ha.
.* in 2018
I suspected it was a trick question given the effort to construct the poll, so I went to Google. I guess this proves the point of not trusting Google rather than experts you know.
Can there be land within an AOC not in a designated climat? I fairly sure I have seen “anonymous” GC Chablis but don’t recall the maker. I thought it might have been Chablisienne but not according to their website.
Added: this was the web site, which seemed credible
https://www.bourgogne-wines.com/wine-and-terroir/bourgogne-and-its-appellations/chablis-grand-cru,2458,9253.html?&args=Y29tcF9pZD0yMjc4JmFjdGlvbj12aWV3RmljaGUmaWQ9MjYxJnw%3D
Only 2 that matter. Rav Clos and Valmur.
Is there a producer who makes a wine from every single Grand Cru. Thinking Piuze or someone must, but I never see or remember Blanchot.
In regard to 7 vs 8, La Moutonne is 2.35 ha according to Bichot web site so it’s not the first entry in the table I cited.
(Edited for clarity)
You mean separately? And, makes, or has made…. Or grows … 
Chablisienne I think according to CT … but they don’t currently list Valmur on their web site.
Also I found this on purple pages (paywalled) - generic GC sold at M&S
https://www.jancisrobinson.com/tastings/144500
But this was def not what I was thinking of.
I promise, there was no great effort to create a trick question. What prompted the poll was this exact question posed at the Fevre seminar at the LA Paulee. Daniel Johannes asked this question the way I phrased it. I thought, like the majority in the poll, 7 GCs. Labeling requirements place Grand Cru (usually in large font) first, followed by the designated climats. Mr. Johannes did not mention any producers listing only GC sans climats.
Yes, but only Bichot has La Moutonne and they don’t do Grenouilles.
So his answer was 7?
1 Grand cru with 7 climat
The very same website has link to the appellation rules that say “The Grand Cru appellation must be followed by the name of the vineyard from which the wine comes”:
Le nom de l’appellation d’origine contrôlée peut être suivi du nom d’un des climats suivants
pour les vins répondant aux conditions de production fixées, pour l’indication d’un de ces noms,
dans le présent cahier des charges :
- « Blanchot » ;
- « Bougros » ;
- « Grenouilles » ;
- « Les Clos » ;
- « Preuses » ;
- « Valmur » ;
- « Vaudésir ».
So I guess that 1.90 ha of “Chablis Grand Cru” is just some fluke. There is no Chablis Grand Cru outside the seven climats and multiple Grand Crus can’t be blended, because the appellation must be followed by one of the vineyard names.
The exception is Moutonne which is almost all Vaudesir with a smidgen of Preuses (5%).