Clos de Vougeot Château Tasting

Clos de Vougeot Château Tasting

Cistercian monks spent 227 years assembling this vineyard — 1109 to 1336 — then enclosed all 50.6 hectares behind a 2km stone wall. That wall is why wine has labels. When Napoleon marched his army past in 1805, he ordered a full military salute. Not to a general. To vines. The timber ceiling above you was cut when Richard the Lionheart was king — tree-ring science confirmed it to 1160. And in 1934, when the Great Depression left Grand Cru cellars overflowing with wine nobody would buy, two men sat down in a cellar in Nuits-Saint-Georges and invented a brotherhood to save Burgundy. They hold their banquets here still.