This may sound like the sort of juicy headlines that might appear in the tabloid, but this is actually about the legend of the Grand Cru vineyards of Chevalier-, Batard-, and Criots-Batard- Montrachet as well as the 1er Cru vineyard of Les Pucelles in Puligny-Montrachet. There was once a knight (Chevalier) who became a local lord, who had an illegtimate son (Batard) after having a fling with local virgins (pucelles). There must also have been an area where the illegitimate baby's cries were often heard (Criots), though one wonders whether the word might have been Criottes the diminutive of crai (or the clay soil) as the Griottes (of Griottes-Chambertin) was suggested to be be another corruption of the same word. The Bienvenue bit of Bienvenue-Batard-Montrachet is surprisingly straight - it is the most common entry point to the vineyards from the village of Puligny hence Bienvenue (Welcome!)
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