Beaune's largest cellars, housed in a former convent, offering one of the region's best-known self-guided cellar tours and tastings beneath the town.
Address: 5-7 Rue du College, 21200 Beaune, France, Burgundy
Beaune family house in business since 1797, the largest holder of Corton-Charlemagne, with a reputation built on grand-cru whites of the Cote de Beaune.
Tasting: Tastings and tours by appointment; the house is the largest owner of Corton-Charlemagne grand cru vines.
Beaune family house in business since 1797, the largest holder of Corton-Charlemagne, with a reputation built on grand-cru whites of the Cote de Beaune.
Tasting: Tastings and tours by appointment; the house is the largest owner of Corton-Charlemagne grand cru vines.
The reference white-Burgundy domaine, biodynamic since the 1990s, with prized parcels of Montrachet, Chevalier-Montrachet and Batard-Montrachet in Puligny.
Tasting: No general cellar door; the family also runs the Olivier Leflaive table and tastings nearby in the village.
Puligny-Montrachet negociant and domaine founded by Olivier Leflaive, best known for its sit-down tasting table pairing flights of white Burgundy with food.
Tasting: Guided tasting lunches and flights at the village table and a small estate hotel; open to bookings.
Puligny-Montrachet domaine of crystalline whites, biodynamic, with parcels in Batard-Montrachet, Bienvenues-Batard and a roll of Puligny premier crus.
Tasting: No general cellar door; allocation through importers.
The leading Meursault domaine, biodynamic under Dominique Lafon, prized for Meursault Perrieres and Genevrieres and a sliver of Le Montrachet.
Tasting: No general cellar door; sold on allocation. The family also runs Heritiers du Comte Lafon in the Maconnais.
Cult Meursault domaine under Raphael Coche, famed for flinty, reductive Meursault and a tiny production of Corton-Charlemagne grand cru.
Tasting: No public tastings; among the most allocation-tight and collected whites in Meursault.
