Château du Clos de Vougeot

Burgundy's largest grand cru: 50-hectare Clos de Vougeot no longer produces wine but hosts La Table de Léonce pairing lunches, plus twice-yearly Chevaliers du Tastevin tastings of 100+ Burgundies—10-30 year drinking window.

What to do there

TourWalk the Walls of Clos de VougeotIn 1098, Cistercian monks at Cîteaux Abbey began the world's first systematic wine research project. They weren't just making wine - they were documenting which 10-meter strip of hillside made better wine than the one next to it. By 1336, they had built a 50-hectare walled vineyard and established the template for every 'Grand Cru' classification that followed.

Wineries nearby

Winery · Burgundy Clos de Vougeot Château Tasting Medieval castle headquarters of the Chevaliers du Tastevin since 1934 — taste six Burgundy Grand Crus with a full lunch in Léonce Bocquet's Renaissance dining room for 145 euros.
Winery · Vosne-Romanée Richebourg: The Shared Legend Richebourg's 8 hectares share legend between Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (3.5ha) & Henri Jayer's legendary bottles (retired 2001, now priceless)—full-bodied muscular Pinot Noir aging from black fruit & violet to forest floor, truffle, leather on limestone slopes.
Winery · Vosne-Romanée Stand at the Wall of Romanée-Conti Stand before Burgundy's holiest ground—the 1.81-hectare monopoly producing fewer than 500 cases of one of the world's rarest, most expensive wines since 1764.