Collection: Clos de Vougeot

Clos de Vougeot is one of Bourgogne's most iconic Grand Cru appellations, located in the village of Vougeot in Côte de Nuits, the northern heart of Bourgogne's red wine area in France. It is a pure red wine appellation, and the wines are made from Pinot Noir. The appellation was recognised as Grand Cru AOC in 1937 and represents the top tier of Bourgogne's classification hierarchy.

The site's history reaches far back. The vineyard was founded by the Cistercian monks of the Cîteaux monastery and assembled through donations from around 1109 to 1115. The vineyard is a walled clos whose surrounding wall was completed around 1336, and it remained monastery-owned until the French Revolution. Today Château du Clos de Vougeot, built in 1551, still tells of the site's past. Since 1945 the château has been the seat of the wine brotherhood Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin.

With its 50.6 hectares, Clos de Vougeot is the largest Grand Cru vineyard in Côte de Nuits. It is worth knowing that the vineyard today is divided into around 100 parcels spread across more than 80 owners. As a result, both style and quality vary considerably from producer to producer, even within the same enclosed vineyard. That is precisely what makes this appellation exciting to explore, because two bottles from here can express the terroir in their own way, depending on where in the vineyard the grapes grew and how the wine was made.

For you who want to understand how a single delimited vineyard can hold so many expressions, Clos de Vougeot is an obvious place to delve in. If you want to put the wines into a larger context, you can explore our broader selection from Bourgogne and the rest of France, where the tradition of linking a wine's character to the individual parcel recurs.