Fixin

Number of hectares

85 ha for A.O.C communal or Côte de Nuits Villages vines

Geographical location

Eastern exposure

Between 260 and 340m altitude

Soil

Some traces of marl, very stony and ferruginous

Definition Appellation

The first mention of Fixey appears to date from 679 in the form fisciacus in a cartulary of the Abbey of Saint-Bénigne in Dijon. Fixin then appears in 830 in the chronicles of Bèze, in the form villa que dicitur fiscinis. Fixey is probably derived from Fiscius, which could be a personal name, but there is also the possibility of a Germanic origin meaning slope or summit.