A Mercurey wine house founded in 1875, with a tasting cellar in the stables of a 17th-century mansion.
€115one way from Beaune with a private driver
Private driver from Beaune: 31 min by road (30 km), €115 one way for the whole car.
Or add it to our half-day wine tour plus one hour, €360.
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Antonin Rodet has been one of the names of Mercurey since 1875. Its cellar door is in the Clos Antonin Rodet, a 17th-century house with Burgundian glazed-tile roofs and an English-style park in the heart of the village. The old stables have become a tasting cellar where visitors taste the wines of the house and its estates, with a focus on the Côte Chalonnaise.
In the old stables, the team leads a commented tasting from the range of the house and its estates, from Mercurey village to the Rully premier cru Clos la Bressande, a monopole. Several tasting circuits on the Côte Chalonnaise can be booked, and the shop sells wines and accessories for serving them. Take time to walk in the park, with its century-old trees, and to see the old greenhouse, whose glass roof dates from the time of Eiffel.
The house was founded in 1875 by Antoine Rodet, known as Antonin, the son of a Chalon-sur-Saône grocer who also dealt in wine, at a time when Chalon was a hub of the wine trade. His marriage to Marie-Françoise Adenot, from a farming family near Mercurey, brought land, and he bought his first vines in 1887, while phylloxera was destroying the Burgundy vineyard.
After Antoine's death in 1905, his son Antonin, a travelling salesman since the age of 16, built the house's name abroad. The house won a silver medal at the Paris World's Fair of 1900. The family no longer runs the company, but Antonin Rodet still makes Côte Chalonnaise wines and also runs the Domaine du Château de Mercey, in the Maranges. Its winemaker, Anne-Laure Hernette, creates the cuvées and works closely with the vineyard teams.
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The cellar opens from Wednesday to Sunday from May to October and from Tuesday to Saturday from November to April, from 10:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 18:00, public holidays included; it closes on 1 January, 1 May and 25 December. Booking is strongly recommended for visits. The Clos is on the Grande Rue in the centre of Mercurey, so it combines easily with the Château de Chamirey or lunch in the village.
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Antonin Rodet is about 31 min from Beaune by road (30 km). With a private driver, the trip from Beaune starts at €115 for the whole car, up to 4 guests.
Did you know? Antonin Rodet the son was an early believer in advertising: from the 1920s he used posters and branded objects, now on show at the Clos, to make Mercurey known far beyond Burgundy.
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