Wine tasting in Beaune: the best cellars

Which kind of wine tasting in Beaune suits you?

Choose by what you want from the hour: a self-guided tasting in a large house to see the cellars and try a range, a guided visit for the history and finer wines, a grower for a personal welcome, a class to learn how to taste.

Prices are per person. They were checked on 28 October 2026 on the houses' websites and the Beaune tourist office's listings; they change, so confirm them when you book.

Which cellars in Beaune suit a first visit?

The Marché aux Vins and Maison Patriarche Père et Fils: you walk through old cellars at your own pace, taste as you go, and both open every day.

At the Marché aux Vins, opposite the Hôtel-Dieu, the tasting runs through the cellars and the three surviving chapels of the Cordeliers' church, a Franciscan church of the late Middle Ages that has received wine lovers since 1976. The Découverte formula pours five wines, four village wines and a Beaune premier cru, for €25 online or €29 at the door, in about an hour. Take it straight after the Hôtel-Dieu, across the street.

Maison Patriarche, in a convent of the Visitation nuns that the house's founder bought around 1780, sends you down into some five kilometres of vaulted galleries, with video points in nine languages, then pours six wines, three whites and three reds that include a Beaune and a Nuits-Saint-Georges premier cru, for €25. Allow at least an hour. Departures take ten people at most: book a time online, or try a walk-in slot on a weekday, as weekend ones are usually full. Under-18s visit free, which makes it the easier choice with teenagers.

Where can you taste premiers and grands crus with a guide?

In the old houses that take small groups through their cellars: Maison Champy, Domaine Chanson and Maison Joseph Drouhin for the history, Champy and the Marché aux Vins for grands crus. Book all of them ahead.

• Maison Champy, founded in 1720: the cellar visit, an hour and a half in cellars the house dates to the 15th century, pours five or six wines, for €30 or €65 depending on the formula. For grands crus, Champy pours four vintages of Corton Grand Cru for €140, or three of Charmes-Chambertin for €180, in an hour.
• Domaine Chanson: a guided climb through four floors of barrels inside a 16th-century tower of the ramparts, then six wines from regional to premier cru, €40, in groups of eight at most, in about an hour and a half. There are many steps.
• Maison Joseph Drouhin: a family house since 1880, whose cellars under the oldest part of town hold, the house says, remains of the Roman walls; visits by reservation, from Monday to Saturday.
• Maison Jaffelin, beside the Collégiale: a smaller house in the 13th-century cellars of the canons of Notre-Dame, for a quieter visit next door to Drouhin.
• Bouchard Aîné & Fils: the Parcours des 5 Sens, 45 minutes through the cellars of an 18th-century mansion, ending with two whites and three reds at village and premier cru level, €25; the Souvenir version, €49, adds a bottle of village wine for each guest. Playful rather than technical, it suits beginners.
• Marché aux Vins: the Prestige tasting, still self-guided, pours seven wines including two grands crus, Ruchottes-Chambertin and Corton-Charlemagne, for €49 online or €59 at the door; the guided Exclusive pours the same wines to ten people at most, for €65.
• Maison Louis Jadot: its working winery on the route de Savigny, on the northern edge of town, receives visitors by appointment. It suits wine lovers who want to see a large house at work, on the way to Savigny-lès-Beaune.

Can you taste with a grower without leaving Beaune?

Yes: two family addresses receive visitors in town, Domaine Baptiste Guyot by appointment and the micro-winery of Vins Coudurier Jung, and the growers' cooperative Nuiton-Beaunoy pours without one.

• Domaine Baptiste Guyot, where the houses give way to the vines north-west of the centre: the family pours the Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Aligoté of a small estate with vines in Beaune, Pernand-Vergelesses, Pommard, Volnay and Monthélie. Tastings take half an hour to an hour and a quarter with the full visit, in groups of about ten; prices are given on request. Book by phone or e-mail, as walk-ins cannot be promised; the domaine closes on Sundays and public holidays.
• Vins Coudurier Jung, just outside the ramparts: Christine Coudurier pours the wines she makes on the spot, fermented with native yeasts and bottled unfiltered, in a commented tasting of about 45 minutes to book ahead. It opens from Tuesday to Saturday, and on Sunday mornings in season.
• Nuiton-Beaunoy, on the Pommard road about 2 km from the centre: the tasting room of the Cave des Hautes-Côtes, a cooperative of some 80 growers, pours free and without an appointment, from Hautes-Côtes wines up to premiers and grands crus. Tasting them side by side is the quickest way to understand the levels of Burgundy.

Where can you learn to taste, or just stop for a glass?

Take a class at Sensation Vin, or the tour of the Cité des Climats et vins de Bourgogne, early in your stay, and use what you learn in the cellars that follow; for a short stop, a glass or two at Maison Champy.

• Sensation Vin, in the old town: in The Essentials, a two-hour class for nine guests at most, Céline Dandelot or Damien Delattre explains Burgundy's grapes, soils and appellations, then pours eight wines blind, two of them grands crus, for €75, from Monday to Friday. The Premier vs Grand Cru class costs €100. About three classes in ten are given in English, the others in French; book a seat online for everyone in your party, as unregistered guests cannot join.
• Cité des Climats et vins de Bourgogne, at the southern entrance to town: an interactive tour of the vine, the cellar and the climats, 1.5 to 2 hours, ending with a glass of wine or grape juice, for €14.50, every day. Its tasting workshops are booked separately.
• Maison Champy's Mâchon: two wines by the glass, chosen from a selection, with local produce, in an hour, for €25.

How many cellars fit in a half day, and in which order?

Two, comfortably: one self-guided tasting and one guided visit, a few minutes' walk apart. A third fits only if one of them is short, and by then most palates are tired; spit, and drink water between houses.

Walk from south to north: from the Marché aux Vins to Domaine Chanson is less than a kilometre, and every cellar of the old town lies on the way or a few minutes off it.

• Morning: the Hôtel-Dieu at opening, then the Marché aux Vins across the street for a self-guided tasting.
• Late morning: five minutes north to the Collégiale Notre-Dame, for a guided visit booked at Maison Joseph Drouhin or Maison Jaffelin, side by side.
• Afternoon: Maison Patriarche on the rue du Collège, then the northern ramparts, where Domaine Chanson's bastion and Bouchard Aîné & Fils stand a minute apart.
• Maison Champy lies a few minutes east of the Hôtel-Dieu, Vins Coudurier Jung and Domaine Baptiste Guyot just west and north-west of the ramparts: fit them in where your bookings fall.
• The Cité des Climats et vins, Nuiton-Beaunoy and Maison Louis Jadot are 1.5 to 2 km from the centre: take them at the start or the end of the day, on your way in or out.

When are the cellars of Beaune closed?

On Sundays, a few of them: Maison Joseph Drouhin, Domaine Chanson and Domaine Baptiste Guyot close, while the Marché aux Vins, Maison Patriarche, Bouchard Aîné & Fils and the Cité des Climats et vins de Bourgogne open every day. Our guide to tasting on a Sunday or a Monday adds the village châteaux that open on those days.

Winter brings short gaps: Bouchard Aîné & Fils closes on Mondays in January and February, the Marché aux Vins over Christmas and New Year and for about two weeks in January, Maison Joseph Drouhin in the weeks of Christmas and New Year, and the Cité on 25 December and 1 January. Vins Coudurier Jung usually closes on Mondays.

On the weekend of the Hospices de Beaune wine sale, 13 to 15 November 2026, the Marché aux Vins, Maison Patriarche and Bouchard Aîné & Fils pour special tastings, most with grands crus, from €59 per person; book them early, as the town is full.

Which wine villages can you add when Beaune is not enough?

The Côte de Beaune starts at the edge of town: Pommard and Aloxe-Corton are about 8 minutes away by road, Volnay and Savigny-lès-Beaune 10, Meursault 15, and the Côte de Nuits, from Nuits-Saint-Georges to Vosne-Romanée, 20 to 25 minutes north.

There you taste with the families who farm the vines, mostly by appointment, and someone has to drive between them. With a private driver from Beaune, nobody in your party does: a half-day wine tour of 4 hours costs €290 per car for up to four guests and fits two or three domaines, and for an afternoon in the vines after the old town, the driver by the hour costs €75 an hour, with a 3-hour minimum. You book your tastings yourself, directly with each domaine; we suggest domaines that suit you and plan the day around your appointments.