Winery · Burgundy

Clos de Vougeot Château Tasting

Name: Clos de Vougeot Château Tasting
Address: Burgundy, FR

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.

What to do there

TourClos de Vougeot Château TastingCistercian 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.

Wineries nearby

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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 Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé Since 1450, the Vogüé family has stewarded Chambolle-Musigny.