 Activities - Visits in Burgundy
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 The vineyard of Burgundy produces for 2000 years wines the prestigious names of which make beat the heart of the connoisseurs.
Burgundy is for all the gourmets synonym for good wine which, in the same way as its gastronomy, is its best ambassador
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The road of wines Mâconnais-Beaujolais | |
" Follow the bunch ", it is the slogan of the thousand panels which mark out 500 km of the road of wines Mâconnais-Beaujolais. This tourist and cultural road crosses 63 communes.
12 circuits of color different cross this road:
- The circuit of the red and white Beaujolais, the Saint-Véran, the Pouilly-Fuissé, the Pouilly-Vinzelles and the Pouilly-Loché, Lamartine, the white and red Mâcon, the Romanic churches.
Informations :
Syndicat d'Initiative de la Route des Vins Mâconnais-Beaujolais
6, rue Dufour
71000 MACON
Phone./fax 03 85 38 09 99
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The road of the vintage wines of Burgundy | |
 The road of the vintage wines of Burgundy, which we sometimes call " Champs-Elysées of Burgundy ", is a magnificent route of about sixty kilometres directed by the North southward following the vineyards the best wines of the Côte de Nuit and the Côte de Beaune.
The point of departure of the road of vintage wines is the regional capital of Burgundy: Dijon. Take advantage of your presence in this prestigious quoted from the Burgundian Dukes to visit its old town, its mansions and its cathedral. As soon as you will have gone out of its walls, you can admire the hillsides which make the fame of the vineyard of Burgundy: you here is engaged on the Côte de Nuits.
The first stage is Marsannay which proclaims himself " city of reception, action and taste ". It is a green village in the ancient architectural heritage the vineyard of which directed in the rising sun proposes of red, pinkish and white vintage wines.
You prolong then southward to reach the canton of Gevrey-Chambertin.
By pursuing your road, you will cross Morey-Saint-Denis and Chambolle-Musigny, then the very famous vineyard of Nuits-Saint-Georges, where we cultivate the vineyard since Ier century later JC.
So, if you continue your road southward and if you exceed Corgoloin, you penetrate into the second part of the road of vintage wines: the Côte de Beaune. Still by going down little in the direction of Châlon-sur-Saone, you can walk between the vineyards of Pommard, Volnay and Meursault. These vintage wines will give you the force to pursue your road until its term: Santenay. After this city, the road continues but it changes name to become that some vintage wines.
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The tourist Road of Vintage wines of Burgundy | |
 The road of Vintage wines of Burgundy is the continuation of the road of Vintage wines. It is a marked out route of hundred of kilometres that crosses 40 wine communes.
This circuit, from Santenay to Saint-Gengoux-le-National, allows to discover a soil rich in big naming of wines of Burgundy : Rully, Mercurey, Givry, Montagny, Bouzeron, Bourgogne Côte Chalonnaise, Maranges, Côtes du Couchois.
This road is to be crossed of village in village, and is characterized by varied landscapes where abound walls and stony low walls. In cycle on the Green Way, by boat on the Canal of the Center or by car, this route full-bodied is to be discovered.
Informations :
Route Touristique des Grands Vins de Bourgogne
CCI de Chalon-sur-Saône, Autun, Louhans
Phone. : 03 85 42 36 00 - fax : 03 85 42 36 01
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