Romanée-Saint-Vivant

Romanée-Saint-Vivant is an Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) and Grand Cru vineyard for red wine in the Côte de Nuits subregion of Burgundy, with Pinot noir as the main grape variety.

It takes its name from the Abbey of Saint Vivant, which in Medieval times owned several vineyards among the Vosne-Romanée Grands Crus.

The entire vineyard of Romanée Saint-Vivant was bought in 1791 by Nicolas-Joseph Marey, son-in-law of the geometer Gaspard Monge, when it was up for sale after the French Revolution after much land had been sequestered.

In 1966, the last member of the Marey-Monge family leased the remaining 5.28 hectares (13.0 acres) to Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, and also gave them an option to be first buyers if the vineyard would come up for sale.

In 2008, 9.30 hectares (23.0 acres) of vineyard surface was in production within the AOC, and 237 hectoliter of wine was produced,[3] corresponding to just under 32,000 bottles.