{"id":1120,"date":"2018-01-13T08:25:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T07:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.domaine-teiller.fr\/?page_id=1120"},"modified":"2025-06-17T15:47:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T13:47:31","slug":"the-appellation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.domaine-teiller.fr\/en\/who-are-we\/the-appellation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Appellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Menetou-Salon appellation<\/strong> is to be found 20km north-east of Bourges and some 200km to the south of Paris. <strong>It has been recognised as an \u201cAppellation d\u2019Origine Contr\u00f4l\u00e9e\u201d since 1959.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Though small in terms of size (650 hectares), it is nonetheless a dynamic wine appellation thanks to the efforts and of its wine growers past and present. The single variety of grapes grown (Pinot Noir for its red and ros\u00e9 wines and Sauvignon Blanc for its whites) and the homogenous argilo-calcareous soil encourage the producers of Menetou-Salon to lean heavily on its natural characteristics. The alchemy of grape and soil reveal subtle nuances of taste giving birth to brilliant terroir wines, true to their natural origins.<\/li>\n<li>The relatively compact area is dynamic and surprising. At the end of the Jurassic era (150-200 million years ago), the ocean receded to the levels of the Cretaceous period (-145 \u2013 -65 million years BC) before retreating further still. Evidence of this distant past is still visible today in the ammonite and shell-cluster fossils which, mixed with the limestone sediment and clay deposits, form the soil in which the vines are rooted. Two single grape varietals dominate: Pinot Noir (red and ros\u00e9 wines) and Sauvignon Blanc (white).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Although the official Menetou-Salon appellation covering its red, white and ros\u00e9 wines dates from 1959, the vineyard is in fact much more ancient. <\/strong>\u00a0Legal documents dating back to the years 1063, 1097 and 1100 attest to the presence of vines in the era. Wines produced in Menetou-Salon during the C15th were the favourites of Jacques Coeur, financier of Charles VII and of the king\u2019s mistress, Agn\u00e8s Sorel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.domaine-teiller.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/vignoble-ap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-886 size-large alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.domaine-teiller.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/vignoble-ap-1024x628.jpg\" alt=\"vignoble-ap\" width=\"1024\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.domaine-teiller.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/vignoble-ap-1024x628.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.domaine-teiller.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/vignoble-ap-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.domaine-teiller.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/vignoble-ap-768x471.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.domaine-teiller.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/vignoble-ap.jpg 1266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Menetou-Salon appellation is to be found 20km north-east of Bourges and some 200km to the south of Paris. It has been recognised as an \u201cAppellation d\u2019Origine Contr\u00f4l\u00e9e\u201d since 1959. Though small in terms of size (650 hectares), it is nonetheless a dynamic wine appellation thanks to the efforts and of its wine growers past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":1118,"menu_order":35,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1120","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domaine-teiller.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domaine-teiller.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domaine-teiller.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domaine-teiller.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domaine-teiller.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.domaine-teiller.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3177,"href":"https:\/\/www.domaine-teiller.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1120\/revisions\/3177"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domaine-teiller.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domaine-teiller.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}