A wine château with vast vaulted cellars, a walled Chardonnay clos and a forest garden.
€290for a half-day wine tour from Beaune, up to 4 guests
Private driver from Beaune: 14 min by road (9 km), €65 one way for the whole car.
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The Château de Meursault stands on the southern side of the village, in a park of about 10 hectares with its orangery and walled vineyard. Beneath it run huge vaulted cellars, dug over several centuries. It is one of the best-known wine estates of the Côte de Beaune and welcomes visitors all year.
The estate grew from the fief of the Moulin Foulot, which Duke Robert I of Burgundy granted to one of his squires in the 11th century. In 1666 it was sold to Pierre Blancheton, a Beaune lawyer at the Parliament of Burgundy, and it stayed with his family until the Revolution. It was then seized, sold, and later passed to the Jobard and Serre families.
In the early 19th century the Serre family enlarged the property, remodelled the buildings and expanded the vineyard. Through inheritance it came to the Counts of Moucheron, when it was about a quarter of its present size. In 1973 André Boisseaux bought and fully restored the château. The Halley family took it over in 2012, and since 2022 the whole vineyard has been farmed organically.
The main house has a central block with a polygonal front in dressed stone, both under mansard roofs of flat tiles, flanked by two wings. The 19th-century orangery is faced partly with glazed brick. Beneath the château and its outbuildings lie about 3,500 square metres of cellars in the Cistercian style, including a great double-vaulted cellar. The park keeps a chestnut alley and a cedar about three centuries old.
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The château is open every day from April to mid-November. From mid-November to the end of March it closes on Sunday afternoons, Mondays and Tuesdays. Guided tours of the château and its cellars end with a tasting, and there are also tastings without booking in the salons and on the terrace. Allow about 90 minutes for a guided visit.
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Château de Meursault is about 14 min from Beaune by road (9 km). With a private driver, the trip from Beaune starts at €65 for the whole car, up to 4 guests.
Did you know? The cellars are now kept at a steady temperature by geothermal energy, drawn from 26 wells dug in the park of the château.
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Half-day wine tour from Beaune: €290 for the car, up to 4 guests
