Gourmet products local specialties and wines Beaune

Hélice is the boutique of Karine Obriot, who has a passion for snails and whose main supplier is Maison Billot, specialists in Burgundy snails since 1796. The Helix pomatia are harvested and the parsley is prepared with butter from Normandy, pink garlic from Lautrec and salt from the Camargue. Here, they can be enjoyed fresh at any time of day: a dozen served with a glass of Chablis - enjoy! In shell, fresh, frozen, cooked, everything is excellent.

Magazzino is this glass building near the Leclerc store in Beaune. An innovative concept created by Joël and Christine Bertrand. On the first floor, an Italian grocery store of 750 m² with a fast-food bar-restaurant of Italian specialties and a vast restaurant on the first floor. The shelves are full of transalpine specialties, cold cuts, cheeses, pizzas, dry products for aperitif, grocery products, wines, preserves... the best to compose a special O sole mio menu! You can also sit down at the bar for a quick lunch.

A large family business, born in 1898, specialized in sparkling wines. Its 250 ha of vineyards cover 6 different terroirs producing numerous crémants of Burgundy appellation as well as more prestigious crus: brut blanc de blanc, vintage, grande cuvée, organic. The guided or audio-guided tour reveals the workshops, cellars, robots and automatons. In the store, you will find products from the Burgundy region: aniseed from Flavigny, Fallot mustard, Prosper Maufoux wines from Saint-Aubin.

In 1957, it all began in a small village on the Hautes Côtes, in the hamlet of Orches, with 10 winegrowers. Today, it has 80 associate winegrowers working 350 ha of vines from Maranges to Marsannay on 1,472 plots. It is the only cooperative winery in the Côte-d'Or region to have earned the Vignerons Engagements label, selling 3 million bottles a year of sustainable, organic and eco-designed cuvées. 40 references, from regional appellations to grands crus and Crémants.

Champy, founded in 1720, is the oldest of Beaune's great houses. Visit by appointment on rue du Grenier à Sel. Without an appointment, at Place de la Halle, you'll find a convivial boutique with a view of the Hôtel Dieu and a team of experts on Climats. Upstairs, a lounge area ideal for tasting Premiers and Grands Crus from the Côte de Beaune and Nuits. 500,000 bottles a year are produced from a third of the estate's 25 ha of vines, 30% of which are organic. Dimitri Bazas, technical director and oenologist, guarantees rigorous vinification.

A must-visit address in Beaune: over 200 types of cheese, including Délice de Pommard, invented by Alain Hess himself, master cheesemaker. This artisan torchon-molded cheese comes in a range of flavors: Dijon gingerbread, Beaune mustard bran, black summer truffle and blackcurrant bud. In the basement, 3 superb vaulted cellars invite you to sample local wines with a cheese platter of your choice, "cheese bar style". A must-taste!

La Conseillerie des Tonneliers, created by Claude Siegrist in 1978 in Beaune, has the will to put forward beautiful wines of winegrowers. For 44 years, the best vintages of Burgundy and other regions of France have been sought after like nuggets for the professional network, tourists and locals. Real treasures, 1 000 selected references, an online sales site and a superb cellar. Yvan, his son, and Laetitia, his granddaughter, are passionate about the diversity of the terroirs, and are committed to creating emotion through accessible wines at estate prices.

In Beaune, Dijon and Besançon, Fabrice Gillotte's shop windows are deliciously gourmet. This MOF chocolatier has won the hearts of chocolate lovers everywhere. A Grand Atelier in Norges-la-Ville, a blue-and-white store in Beaune, a chic, minimalist decor. Caramel-filled butters, macaroon pyramids, pure butter shortbread, soft cakes with melting hearts... everything is exquisite. For your special events, Fabrice Gillotte creates themed sculptures, from a 1.20 m-long love affair to giant mushrooms. What art!

Founded in 1750, this is one of the oldest houses in Beaune. Michel Bouchard, draper and wine merchant, and later his son Joseph, established the family here. Visit the Hôtel du Conseiller du Roy, a superb residence dating from 1743. The "Discovery" tour includes a sensory, playful and interactive 5-sensory tour, and a tasting of 5 wines that opens the ^18th-century cellars. The "Souvenir" tour includes a Premier Cru and Grand Cru tasting, and you leave with a souvenir bottle. In the boutique, bottles to suit all tastes.

Brasserie de France, 10,000 hectolitres/year, has created a "Bière Expériences" workshop open to individuals and employees. The concept is simple: 20 people brew their own beer for 4 hours. After 21 days, they get their beer back. Understand the differences between beers, find out what an IPA is... Here's a workshop to make, learn, analyze, but also decipher its tasting and of course enjoy! Other workshops are available: brewing and tasting workshops, introduction to zythology, beer and wine tasting..

This is a completely original place in Beaune: both wine cellar, tasting room, guest table, venue for tasting up to concert hall, with the possibility of organizing musical beggs and listening to vinyl on a state-of-the-art chain. Dare down the few steps to access, directly from the street in the cellars. The place is magical. Then a memorable meeting awaits you with Guillaume Grandin and Seo Eun Yang, both passionate professionals of wine and wine growing. Their passion, they chose to pass it on to you in this exceptional setting of the ancient Cistercian cellars of the xiiith century with exceptional cachet. Guillaume traveled the world to teach wines and their gastronomic agreements, he is always professor at the faculty. From its selection from an excellent network of wine growers from France, Burgundy, Savoie, Rhône, Languedoc or Loire, it transports you to make you an unforgettable moment. From simple advice to a tasty tasting, or even a burgundy meal in harmony with wines, Guillaume and Seo Eun adapt to the desires of each. Do not hesitate to ask for a tasting course. A unique and different oeno-tourism approach and a beautiful meeting await you at the Abbey Cellars.

La Maison de Maurice is a wine merchant like no other. Borrowing an exclusive and top-of-the-range image through its luxury apartments, you should not hesitate to enter this shop dedicated to wine tourism. This small private mansion houses on its ground floor a wine shop that offers a selection of both quality and affordable wines in an intimate setting.  Christophe Meux puts his knowledge of wine at your disposal to advise you and even to make you taste his selections of the moment. An enomatic allows you to keep under nitrogen the bottles of 4 whites and 4 reds opened for their discovery. Friendly, La Maison de Maurice has also a wine bar with the possibility to accompany the wines with charcuterie boards and cheeses prepared with regional products for a gourmet moment. The small inner courtyard offers a real charm between the shop and the bar. The wines of Maurice are Burgundian, from the Rhone valley of the Jura or the Loire. They are preferably organic and sometimes natural. You have at your disposal a catalog of more than 250 references at prices as fair as possible.