Burgundy Discovery wine tours

Daily tours

Our One day English language full day guided tours are for everyone who enjoys wine offering the opportunity to explore the wines and beauty of Burgundy over a single day.

We can offer a tour any day of the week except Sundays and French Public Holidays. The family winegrowers we visit close on these days preferring to keep them family days as is common throughout France. We run our tours from February through to mid-December (most wineries are closed over Christmas and New Year). If you have a special requirement within this period please ask us.

All tours include a pick up and return to your accommodation in or near Beaune, or if you are travelling in by train, Beaune railway station. A typical day begins between 9.00 – 9.15 and ends around 17.00 – 17:30.

Tours are personal, informal, informative and fun! You are driven in quality comfort into the vineyards through the beautiful Burgundy countryside and stunning centuries old villages. We will explain the basics of Burgundy – its wine growing areas, grape varieties and the appellation system. We take you through your personal information pack containing maps, facts and figures, pen pictures of the winegrowers we will visit and tasting sheets for the wines we will taste.

Throughout the day we take a closer look at the vines to appreciate ‘terroir’ and aspect, answering your questions on Burgundy and its wines. We visit ancient cellars and working wineries to explain the winemaking process and what is happening in the vineyards at the time of your visit.

On a typical day you will visit three, family owned domaines and taste between 15 to 20 wines from the bottle, or where possible, from the barrel, across a range of vintages. We taste red Pinot Noir, white Chardonnay and Aligoté; and depending upon the grower we visit perhaps some sparkling Crem ant. If you are not familiar with our classification system we will help to get you up to speed with essential information – the Appellation d’Origine Controlée  structure, the grape varieties and the wine making traditions of the region.

In collaboration with carefully selected local restaurants renowned for their typical Burgundian cuisine, we will also enjoy a three course lunch with wine.

Tours focus upon the vineyards of Burgundy’s Côte de Beaune, Côte de Nuits but can also include the Hautes-Côtes & Côte Chalonnaise. Experience wine lists come alive as we tour world-famous villages such as Meursault, Santenay, Puligny-Montrachet, Chassagne-Montrachet, Savigny-Les-Beaune, Nuits St Georges, Vosne Romanée, Gevrey Chambertin, Chambolle-Musigny, Mercurey, Givry and Rully.

There is opportunity to buy wine, from the Domaine's we visit, often unavailable outside France, and at vineyard prices. We can also arrange for wines to be shipped to most countries

'Premier One Day Tour'

 This full day tour provides an excellent introduction to Burgundy, its winegrowers and the regions marvellous wines. The tour offers the opportunity to taste a variety of Burgundy's Regional, Village, and Premier Cru, red and white wines during a typical relaxing and enjoyable day.

The tour includes:

  • Pick up and return to your accommodation in or nearby to Beaune.
  • Travel through the vineyards and historic Burgundy villages
  • Guided explanation and information throughout the day in English language.  
  • Visits to 3 selected family Domaines within Côte de Beaune, Côte de Nuits, Hautes Côtes and/or Côte Chalonnaise.
  • Tasting of between 15-20 excellent Regional, Village, and some Premier Cru appellation wines
  • Personal information pack with maps, wine label details, glossary of  Burgundy wine terms, and information on the growers we will visit during your tour.
  • An excellent 3-course lunch, with wine, in local highly regarded restaurants renowned for their typical Burgundy cuisine.
  • Opportunity to purchase wine at vineyard prices.

Our Premier one-day tour is 295 Euro per person, inclusive of all the above. 

'Hidden Secrets One Day Tour'

Burgundy has many “Hidden Secrets” and on this full day tour we take you to winegrowers who are off the beaten track and who rarely receive visitors. You will meet true Burgundy characters, visit charming cellars and taste amazing wines.

We usually meet the winegrowers (and often their dogs too!) who tend the vines, make the wine, mature and sell it. This is great wine produced with heart-felt passion and rarely found outside of France.

The tour includes:

  • Pick up and return to your accommodation in or nearby to Beaune.
  • Travel through the vineyards and historic Burgundy villages
  • Guided explanation and information throughout the day in English language.  
  • Visits to three of Burgundy’s “Hidden Secret” winegrowers
  • Travel to the Hautes-Côtes as well as the Côte de Beaune, Côte de Nuits and/or Côte Chalonnaise.
  • Tasting of between 15-20 excellent Regional, Village, and some Premier Cru appellation wines.   
  • Personal information pack with maps, wine label details, glossary of  Burgundy wine terms, and information on the growers we will visit during your tour.
  • An excellent 3-course lunch, with wine, in local highly regarded restaurants renowned for their typical Burgundy cuisine.
  • Opportunity to purchase wine at vineyard prices.

Our Hidden Secrets one-day tour is 295 Euro per person, inclusive of all the above. 

'Grand Premier One Day tour'

On this special full day tour we take you to family Domaines who produce some of Burgundy’s best- known wines. We will visit three winegrowers and taste a mix of excellent Village and Premier Cru wines, as well as giving the opportunity to taste rare Grand Cru, produced in minute quantity and often very difficult to taste on a day-to-day basis.

We drive through Burgundy’s famous wine villages and stop to take a close look at some of the regions best known vineyards; e.g. Romanée-Conti, La Tâche, Corton or Le Montrachet.

 The tour includes:

  • Pick up and return to your accommodation in or nearby to Beaune.
  • Travel through the vineyards and historic Burgundy villages
  • Guided explanation and information throughout the day in English language.  
  • Visits to 3 selected family Domaines within Côte de Beaune, Côte de Nuits, Hautes Côtes and/or Côte Chalonnaise.
  • Tasting of between 15-20 of Burgundy’s top Village and Premier Cru appellation wines and opportunities to taste Grand Cru.
  • Personal information pack with maps, wine label details, glossary of  Burgundy wine terms, and information on the growers we will visit during your tour.
  • An excellent 3-course lunch, with wine, in local highly regarded restaurants renowned for their typical Burgundy cuisine.
  • Opportunity to purchase wine at vineyard prices.

Our Grand Premier one-day tour is 325 Euro per person, inclusive of all the above.

'Gourmet Grand Premier One Day tour'

This is a tour for the foodies! We've combined our Grand Premier tour where we taste some of Burgundy's top Premier Cru Appellations and Grand Cru with an exceptional lunch in Le Bistrot du Bord de l'Eau at the Relais et Château Hostellerie Levernois (www.levernois.com). The Hostellerie, whose main restaurant has a Michelin star, is situated in wonderful parkland and we enjoy lunch around the log fire in winter and on the waterside terrace in summer. This one day tour combines superb wine tasting with exceptional food.

 The tour includes:

  • Pick up and return to your accommodation in or nearby to Beaune.
  • Travel through the vineyards and historic Burgundy villages
  • Guided explanation and information throughout the day in English language.  
  • Visits to 3 selected family Domaines within Côte de Beaune, Côte de Nuits, Hautes Côtes and/or Côte Chalonnaise.
  • Tasting of between 15-20 of Burgundy’s top Village and Premier Cru appellation wines and opportunities to taste Grand Cru.
  • Personal information pack with maps, wine label details, glossary of  Burgundy wine terms, and information on the growers we will visit during your tour.
  • An exceptional 3-course lunch, with Sommelier selected wines, in Le Bistrot du Bord de l'Eau at the Relais et Château Hostellerie Levernois.
  • Opportunity to purchase wine at vineyard prices.

Our Gourmet Grand Premier one-day tour is 365 Euro per person, inclusive of all the above.