--- title: "Saint-Véran Wine Tasting below the Roche de Solutré" description: "Fresh, fruity Chardonnay from about 735 hectares in two sections wrapped around Pouilly-Fuissé. Taste both in a day, 1 h 10 from Beaune by private driver." url: https://www.cote-privee.com/villages/saint-veran lang: en updated: 2026-09-29 generated: 2026-10-08 image: https://www.cote-privee.com/og/villages/saint-veran.png --- # Saint-Véran > Saint-Véran: Fresh Chardonnay from villages that wrap around Pouilly-Fuissé, beneath the Roche de Solutré. Saint-Véran is a wine village (Mâconnais), 1 h 10 by road (97 km) from Beaune. White wine · Private driver from Beaune: €260 one way for the whole car, up to 4 guests. Saint-Véran is a white wine appellation in the far south of the Mâconnais, about 70 minutes from Beaune. Its villages form two separate sections, north and south of Pouilly-Fuissé, on the slopes around the Roche de Solutré. The wines are fresh, fruity Chardonnay, easy to enjoy young. ## Key facts - Type: Wine village - Region: Mâconnais - Location: 85 km south of Beaune · Mâconnais - Coordinates: 46.2545, 4.7353 - 1 h 10 from Beaune - White wine - Appellations: Saint-Véran - Grapes: Chardonnay - From Beaune: ≈ 1 h 10 · 97 km - €700 for a [full-day wine tour](https://www.cote-privee.com/wine-tours/full-day) plus two hours, from Beaune, up to 4 guests ## Getting there - [Private driver from Beaune](https://www.cote-privee.com/private-driver): 1 h 10 by road (97 km), €260 one way for the whole car. Coming by train or plane? [Transfers from stations and airports](https://www.cote-privee.com/transfers) Estimates per vehicle for up to 4 guests, tolls included. Your price is confirmed when you book. ## History The appellation was created on 6 January 1971. Before that, its wines were sold as white Mâcon-Villages or white Beaujolais-Villages. The name comes from the tiny village of Saint-Vérand, one of the ten smallest communes in Saône-et-Loire, although the appellation drops the final d. Its church has a squat bell tower with an octagonal spire, which holds one of the oldest bells in the diocese of Autun, cast in 1733. The villages have deep roots. Davayé's church of Saint-Julien appears in a charter of Cluny as early as 947. In 1059 King Henri I gave Leynes to the Benedictine monks of Tournus. The village later became a stronghold of the Dukes of Burgundy, controlling the Saône plain, until Louis XI took it in 1471. After phylloxera, growers replanted with Chardonnay in a district where red Gamay had long dominated. ## The wines Saint-Véran is white only, from Chardonnay, on about 735 hectares. The soils are fossil-rich limestones of Middle Jurassic age, with grey marls on the western slopes, marly limestones on the eastern ones and patches of clay with flints. There are no premiers crus. The wines are fresh and fruity, often with white flowers and citrus, and they are usually approachable young, which makes them a good introduction to Mâconnais white. ## What to see ### Roche de Solutré The limestone cliff that watches over both Saint-Véran and Pouilly-Fuissé rises to 493 metres. A path climbs to the top, and the prehistory museum sits at its foot. ### Leynes A hillside village above the Arlois valley, with views south to the hills of Saint-Vérand and Saint-Amour. Its church of Saint-Vital has modern glass-slab windows installed in 1989. ### Davayé Its church of Saint-Julien, partly Romanesque and first mentioned in 947, holds a listed 17th-century painting of the Holy Family. The village is also home to a wine school. ## Good to know Saint-Véran fits naturally into a Pouilly-Fuissé day, since the two vineyards interlock. Allow time for the Roche de Solutré and a village tasting, and return to Beaune by the motorway from Mâcon. ## Did you know? The appellation is spelled Saint-Véran, while the village that gave its name is Saint-Vérand, with a final d. The vineyard is also split in two by Pouilly-Fuissé. ## Around Saint-Véran What to combine with Saint-Véran on the same day, nearest first. ### Villages - [Pouilly-Fuissé](https://www.cote-privee.com/villages/pouilly-fuisse) (3 km away): Burgundy's great southern white, grown beneath the limestone cliffs of Solutré and Vergisson. - [Viré-Clessé](https://www.cote-privee.com/villages/vire-clesse) (23 km away): Two neighbouring villages of the Haut-Mâconnais, joined in one appellation for generous Chardonnay. ### Châteaux - [Château de Chasselas](https://www.cote-privee.com/chateaux/chateau-de-chasselas) (3 km away): A three-towered castle with glazed-tile roofs in the Saint-Véran hills, long the heart of a wine estate. - [Château d’Estours](https://www.cote-privee.com/chateaux/chateau-d-estours) (4 km away): A moated fortified house south of Mâcon, fought over by Écorcheurs and Mâcon militias. - [Château de Vinzelles](https://www.cote-privee.com/chateaux/chateau-de-vinzelles) (3 km away): Two neighbouring castles above Vinzelles, linked by a vat house with great wooden wine presses. - [Château de Fuissé](https://www.cote-privee.com/chateaux/chateau-de-fuisse) (3 km away): The Vincent family's historic estate in Pouilly-Fuissé, home of the appellation's only monopole premier cru. - [Château de Pierreclos](https://www.cote-privee.com/chateaux/chateau-de-pierreclos) (9 km away): A medieval castle turned wine estate on a rocky spur near Solutré, full of Lamartine memories. ### Things to do - [Domaine Luquet Depuis 1878](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-luquet-fuisse) (3 km away): A family estate in the heart of Fuissé since 1878, with six generations of Pouilly-Fuissé and Saint-Véran. - [Cave de Vinzelles-Loché](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/cave-de-vinzelles-loche) (4 km away): The 1929 cooperative of Vinzelles and Loché, where three Pouilly appellations can be tasted side by side. - [Solutré Museum of Prehistory (Musée de Préhistoire de Solutré)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/musee-de-prehistoire-de-solutre), 5 km away: A half-buried museum at the foot of the rock, telling the story of Solutré's Ice Age hunters. ### Restaurants - [L’Auberge du Cep](https://www.cote-privee.com/restaurants/auberge-du-cep-fleurie) (8 km away · 1 MICHELIN star): A historic inn in the Beaujolais cru village of Fleurie, starred again since 2021. - [La Table de Chaintré](https://www.cote-privee.com/restaurants/la-table-de-chaintre) (2 km away · 1 MICHELIN star): One menu a week, one husband-and-wife team, in a former village grocery near Mâcon. - [L’O des Vignes](https://www.cote-privee.com/restaurants/l-o-des-vignes-fuisse) (3 km away · 1 MICHELIN star): A Meilleur Ouvrier de France cooking in the heart of Pouilly-Fuissé. - [La Huchette](https://www.cote-privee.com/restaurants/la-huchette-replonges) (12 km away · 1 MICHELIN star): Bresse produce with a Mediterranean accent, just across the Saône from Mâcon. ### Guides about Saint-Véran - [Burgundy’s grape varieties](https://www.cote-privee.com/guides/burgundy-grape-varieties) - [Wine tour itineraries from Beaune](https://www.cote-privee.com/guides/burgundy-wine-tour-itineraries) ## Questions about Saint-Véran ### How far is Saint-Véran from Beaune? Saint-Véran is about 1 h 10 from Beaune by road (97 km). With a private driver, the trip from Beaune starts at €260 for the whole car, up to 4 guests. ### What wines is Saint-Véran known for? Saint-Véran makes mostly white wines under these appellations: Saint-Véran. ### Can you taste wine in Saint-Véran? Yes. Many domaines in Saint-Véran receive visitors, usually by appointment. On a wine tour your driver plans the route and helps you book the tastings, which you pay directly to the domaines. ### Can a private driver take us to Saint-Véran? Yes. Your driver collects you in Beaune or at your hotel in an electric Polestar 2 (up to 4 guests), waits while you visit and plans the rest of the day with you. The driver speaks English, French, Mandarin Chinese and Arabic. → [Full-day wine tour plus two hours, €700](https://www.cote-privee.com/wine-tours/full-day) ## Book - [Book a driver here](https://www.cote-privee.com/book?service=wine-tour&option=full&place=village:stveran): Full-day wine tour plus two hours from Beaune: €700 for the car, up to 4 guests ## Sources - - - --- Canonical page: