A monopole is an area controlled by a single winery

Winery

A winery is a building or property that produces wine, or a business involved in the production of wine, such as a wine company. Some wine companies own many wineries. Besides wine making equipment, larger wineries may also feature warehouses, bottling lines, laboratories, and large expanses of...

 (wine company) and can be as small as a lieu-dit

Lieu-dit

Lieu-dit is a French toponymic term referring to an uninhabited place yet bearing a name...

 (vineyard) or as large as an entire appellation d'origine contrôlée

Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée

Appellation d’origine contrôlée , which translates as "controlled designation of origin", is the French certification granted to certain French geographical indications for wines, cheeses, butters, and other agricultural products, all under the auspices of the government bureau Institut National...

, such as Bordeaux

Bordeaux wine

A Bordeaux wine is any wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France. Average vintages produce over 700 million bottles of Bordeaux wine, ranging from large quantities of everyday table wine, to some of the most expensive and prestigious wines in the world...

 or Champagne. Frequently this is mentioned on the label and it is rare for only one winery to produce all the wine from an area entitled to a certain name. Each wine is sold by only one company.

The Napoleonic inheritance laws typically caused vineyards to be so finely divided that négociants are needed to bottle commercial quantities of a wine

Wine

Wine is an alcoholic beverage, made of fermented fruit juice, usually from grapes. The natural chemical balance of grapes lets them ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, or other nutrients. Grape wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast...

. Whether a monopole indicates a wine of unusual quality or not is a matter of debate.

List of monopoles (in need of expansion)

In Burgundy:

Vineyard Name	Class	Commune(Village)	Owner
Chablis "La Moutonne"	Grand Cru	Chablis	Albert Bichot (Domaine Long Depaquit)
Ruchottes-Chambertin "Clos des Ruchottes"	Grand Cru	Gevrey-Chambertin	Domaine Armand Rousseau Domaine Armand Rousseau Domaine Armand Rousseau is a French wine grower and producer. It is based in Gevrey-Chambertin, in the Côte de Nuits wine-growing region of Burgundy, France.-History:...
Clos de Tart	Grand Cru	Morey-Saint-Denis	Mommessin
Clos des Lambray	Grand Cru	Morey-Saint-Denis	Domaine des Lambrays
Romanée-Conti	Grand Cru	Vosne-Romanée	Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, often abbreviated to DRC, is an estate in Burgundy, France that produces white and red wine. It is widely considered among the world's greatest wine producers, and DRC bottles are among the world's most expensive...
La Tâche	Grand Cru	Vosne-Romanée	Domaine de la Romanée-Conti
La Grande Rue	Grand Cru	Vosne-Romanée	Domaine François Lamarche
Corton "Clos des Marechaudes"	Grand Cru	Aloxe-Corton	Albert Bichot
Corton "Clos des Cortons Faiveley"	Grand Cru	Aloxe-Corton	Faiveley
Clos des Noiterons	Village	Mercurey	Château d'Etroyes (Protheau)
Clos Napoléon (previously aux Cheuzots)	Premier Cru	Fixin	Pierre Gelin
Clos de la Mousse	Premier Cru	Beaune	Bouchard Père et Fils
Clos des Réas	Premier Cru	Vosne-Romanée	Michel Gros
Clos des Corvées	Village	Mercurey	Château d'Etroyes (Protheau)
Le Clos de Thorey	Premier Cru	Nuits-Saint-Georges	Antonin Rodet
Clos de la Maréchale	Premier Cru	Nuits-Saint-Georges	Jacques Frederic Mugnier
Savigny-Champ-Chevrey	Premier Cru	Savigny-lès-Beaune	Domaine Tollot-Beaut
Clos de l'ecu	Premier Cru	Beaune	Domaine Faiveley Domaine Faiveley Domaine Faiveley is a wine producer in Burgundy, France situated in Nuits-Saint-Georges and established in 1825. Faiveley also runs a négociant business, but this activity is much smaller in volume than the wine production from their own vineyards....
Clos des Ursule	Premier Cru	Beaune	Louis Jadot Louis Jadot Maison Louis Jadot is a wine company that produces and markets Burgundy wine. Louis Jadot operates both their own vineyards and has a négociant business...
Clos des Épeneaux	Premier Cru	Pommard	Comte Armand
Fremiets Clos de la Rougeotte	Premier Cru	Volnay	Bouchard Père & Fils
Clos des Ducs	Premier Cru	Volnay	Marquis d'Angerville
Clos de la Bousse d'Or	Premier Cru	Volnay	La Pousse d'Or
Clos des 60 Ouvrées	Premier Cru	Volnay	La Pousse d'Or
Clos de la Chapelle	Premier Cru	Volnay	Domaine Clos de la Chapelle
Clos Saint Paul	Premier Cru	Givry	Domaine Silvestre Du Closel
Clos Salomon	Premier Cru	Givry	Gardin Perrotto (Domaine du Clos Salomon)
Clos des Myglands	Premier Cru	Mercurey	Domaine Faiveley
Clos de la Fontaine	Village	Vosne-Romanée	Anne Fraçoise Gros
Clos Blanc de Vougeot	Village	Vougeot	Domaine de la Vougeraie
Clos des Langres	Village	Corgoloin	Domaine d'Ardhuy
Pièce du Chapître	Village	Savigny-lès-Beaune	Domaine Tollot-Beaut
Clos de la Chaume Gaufriot	Village	Beaune	Antonin Guyon
Clos des Ursulines	Village	Pommard	Albert Bichot (Domaine du Pavillon)
Clos la Marche	Village	Mercurey	Louis Max

Others

• Château-Grillet AOC
  Château-Grillet AOC
  Château-Grillet is a wine-growing AOC in the northern Rhône wine region of France, near Vienne, which produces white wine from Viognier grapes. The whole appellation, which only is in size, is owned by a single winery, Château-Grillet...
  
  , of Château Grillet.

In Bourgogne region, most of the vineyards which classified as Grand Cru have their own appellation (AOC). However, for some cases, several vineyards have one appellation. For example, 7 Grand Crus exists in Chablis region, but only one appellation "Chablis Grand Cru" is given to them. Corton Grand Cru, the largest Grand Cru in Bourgogne, has 26 sub-vineyards in it.

Chablis "La Moutonne" is not recognized as Grand Cru by INAO, but BIVB (Bureau Interprofessionnel des Vins de Bourgogne) recognizes it as Grand Cru.