LA ROUTE DES GRANDS CRUS
Known as Burgundy's Champs-Élysées, this is the ideal route to discover the Climats in Beaune
This is the route of choice for discovering the Climats, the parcels of vines listed as Unesco World Heritage Sites on July 4, 2015! Like an Ariadne's thread, this line from Dijon to Les Maranges unfurls an exceptional landscape, essential to understanding and reading the 1,247 climats. This 80 km route passes through 37 emblematic wine-producing villages, each with its own unique identity and architecture of stone houses huddled around a bell tower with a glazed tile roof. Important heritage sites such as the Château du Clos de Vougeot bear witness to this thousand-year-old history, the legacy of the Cîteaux monks. Estates, cellars and vaulted cellars with the Vignobles & Découvertes label are open for tasting, all telling the story of the men and women who continue to shape this landscape today.
By car, by bike via the Voie des Vignes, on horseback via the Chemin équestre de la Côte dijonnaise, on foot via the Chemin des Grands Crus with the Balades en Bourgogne app, all means are good to discover this first French wine route, created in 1937 by the Conseil Général de la Côte-d'Or, coinciding with the first paid vacations of 1936.
Nicknamed "the Champs-Élysées of Burgundy", the route des grands crus is a must-see. Writer Bernard Pivot summed up this exceptional heritage magnificently: "In Burgundy, when you talk about a Climat, you don't raise your eyes to heaven, you lower them to earth".
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