Outdoors · Burgundy

Route des Grands Crus Cycling

Founded 1937, France's oldest wine route threads 81km through 25 Grands Crus between Vosne-Romanée & Gevrey-Chambertin (the Champs Élysées of Burgundy)—cycle 60km Dijon to Santenay through Côte de Nuits & Côte de Beaune from May to harvest, e-bikes recommended.

What to do there

AdventureCôte de Nuits by E-Bike: Nuits to Gevrey and BackA day loop of about 24 km by e-bike from Nuits-Saint-Georges, the halfway point of the cycle route. The story goes that Chambertin was a peasant's field, the champ de Bertin; Napoleon made it his favourite wine and drank it heavily watered. At Clos de Vougeot, Stendhal tells of a colonel who halted his regiment to salute the vines. A 14th-century cross marks Romanée-Conti, where a 1945 bottle sold for $812,500 in 2026. Back in Nuits, weigh two stories of why its 41 premiers crus include no grand cru, over a tasting you can spit, or syrups at the Cassissium.

Wineries nearby

Winery · Nuits-Saint-Georges Nuits-Saint-Georges: The First AOC Nuits-Saint-Georges became Burgundy's first AOC in 1936 with 41 Premier Crus and zero Grand Crus—97% world-class Pinot Noir spanning 2 communes across Côte de Nuits, proving consistency beats prestige in this rival to Gevrey-Chambertin.
Winery · Vosne-Romanee Domaine de la Romanée-Conti DRC: 28 hectares of Burgundy's holiest Grand Cru vineyards, averaging 25 hl/ha (three vines per bottle) — a 1945 Romanée-Conti sold for $558,000 in 2018.
Winery · Vosne-Romanée Domaine Leroy: The 10 hl/ha Miracle Lalou's biodynamic revolution: 10 hl/hectare yields (vs 50 elsewhere) — microscopically scaled production from hyper-pruned vines creates liquid intensity.