Château de Chazoux
A modest wine estate house near Mâcon that hides richly painted rooms and a landscaped park.
- Manor
- 1 h 14 from Beaune
- Private, seen from outside
- 19th century
€265one way from Beaune with a private driver
At a glance
- Commune
- Hurigny · Saône-et-Loire
- Style
- Eclectic 19th-century wine estate house
- Heritage
- Registered historic monument
Getting there
Private driver from Beaune: 1 h 14 by road (99 km), €265 one way for the whole car.
Or add it to our full-day wine tour plus two hours, €700.
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About the château
Chazoux lies at Hurigny, on the north-western edge of Mâcon, in the Mâconnais wine country. From outside it looks sober, but inside it keeps a complete suite of painted rooms from the 1880s. Its park, with belvederes and garden buildings, was designed by the Luizet family of Lyon, and the whole estate was listed in 2023.
History
The Chazoux wine estate took shape in the 18th century, and a château or master's house is recorded in 1809. From the 1880s the owners, Alphonse Michoud and his wife Thérèse de Boissieu, set out to redesign the estate. They kept the exterior sober but lavished attention on the interiors, calling on the workshop of the painter Victor Bussière for the salons and bedrooms.
In true 19th-century taste, each room evokes a different period: the Middle Ages, the Renaissance or the age of Louis XV. For the park the couple turned to Marc-Antoine II and Gabriel II Luizet, from a dynasty of Lyon horticulturists, who laid out wide curving paths, lawns and viewpoints. The whole estate, with its outbuildings, park and walls, was listed as a historic monument in 2023.
Architecture
The suite of reception rooms is remarkably well preserved. The small and large salons, painted by Victor Bussière in light Louis XV tones, lead to a Renaissance-style dining room with a beamed French-style ceiling and a neo-Gothic library with a monumental fireplace and furniture bearing the owners' arms. Corridors and stairs in pale wood picked out with coloured lines unify the house.
Visiting
Tips for your visit
Chazoux is a private home and is not open to visitors, so please respect the owners' privacy. Hurigny lies on the edge of Mâcon, a convenient place to begin a day in the Mâconnais vineyards or on the Lamartine trail towards Milly, Monceau and Saint-Point.
Around here
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Questions
Château de Chazoux is about 1 h 14 from Beaune by road (99 km). With a private driver, the trip from Beaune starts at €265 for the whole car, up to 4 guests.
Did you know? An ice house was hidden beneath one of the belvederes in the park, while a heated orangery and greenhouse extend the east wing of the house.
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Château de Chazoux with a private driver
€265 one way from Beaune · up to 4 guests