Booking Burgundy Domaine Visits: Appointments, Fees and Days

Booking Burgundy domaine visits means contacting each estate on its own terms: an online booking page, a phone call or an email. Appointment rules, fees and opening days differ from one estate to the next across Beaune, the Côte de Nuits, Chablis and the Mâconnais.

The short answer

Book before you travel. The Beaune tourist office advises booking in advance, though some estates accept visits without booking.

Château de Pommard takes visitors by reservation only, Jean-Claude Boisset and René Leclerc by appointment, and Laroche's Prestige Tasting Tour in Chablis needs at least two weeks' notice. Entry-level visits and tastings at the estates below cost €6.50–59 ($7–64). Caves Patriarche in Beaune and the walk-in tastings at Château de Meursault need no booking, subject to availability.

Your options

Beaune

Caves Patriarche, at 5 rue du Collège, runs a self-guided cellar tour followed by six wines tasted with sommeliers, in about 1 hour, for €25 ($27). No reservation is needed, and each departure takes 10 people at most, subject to availability.

Maison Bouchard Père et Fils, in the Château de Beaune, runs private visits of its underground galleries by reservation only, ending with a commented tasting. Maison Joseph Drouhin organizes tastings, visits and vineyard tours by vehicle or electric bike on reservation. Its Oenothèque at 1 place du Général Leclerc opens Monday to Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., and takes vineyard-tour bookings at oenotheque@drouhin.com.

Maison Bouchard Aîné & Fils needs a telephone reservation, on 03 80 24 06 66, for its Parcours des 5 Sens: a guided cellar tour and five wines, two white and three red. Each tour has 20 places, with departures at 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m., 4 p.m. and 5 p.m.

Domaine Besancenot runs a 1-hour family tasting at €20 ($22) per adult, Monday to Friday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., with syrups for children aged 5 and up. Call 03 80 22 18 76.

Meursault and Pommard

In Meursault, Château de Meursault runs booked tours and tastings. Grands Terroirs, a tour of the château and cellars with seven wines for 12 people at most, costs €59 ($64) and lasts 1 hour 15 minutes to 1 hour 30 minutes. The private Prestige and Exclusive tastings cost €105 ($113) and €175 ($189).

Without a reservation, Château de Meursault pours tasting packages from €35 ($38) every day from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., subject to availability. From mid-November to the end of March, the château closes on Sunday afternoons, Mondays and Tuesdays.

Château de Pommard takes all visitors by reservation only and doesn't guarantee a place at its welcome desk without one. The Discover Burgundy Tasting costs €30 ($32) for 45 minutes and four wines, in English or French. The cellars can't be visited during a restoration and expansion project. Book on +33 3 80 22 07 99.

Nuits-Saint-Georges and Gevrey-Chambertin

At Domaine Henri Gouges in Nuits-Saint-Georges, visits are preferably by appointment, Monday afternoon to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Tastings cost €20 ($22) for three wines, €45 ($49) for five and €75 ($81) for six. Email maison@gouges.com or call +33 3 80 61 04 40.

Jean-Claude Boisset's Les Ursulines runs a daily guided tour and tasting by appointment only, in French and English, for 12 people at most. The visit lasts 1 hour 30 minutes. A tasting costs €15 ($16), and a tour with tasting €35 ($38) or €50 ($54). Book at reservation@jeanclaudeboisset.fr or on 03 80 62 64 08.

In Gevrey-Chambertin, Domaine René Leclerc runs its appointment-only visit, with a tasting of four wines, at €20 ($22), at 11 a.m. or 3 p.m. Domaine Tortochot receives visitors by appointment only, closes on weekends and charges €40–250 ($43–270). Domaine Gallois takes appointments at €25–220 ($27–238).

Chablis

La Chablisienne books every formula by reservation, in French or English, and visitors must be at least 18. The Discovery tasting of four wines takes 45 minutes and costs €6.50 ($7). The Wine and Gastronomy formula, at €15 ($16), needs at least four people and 48 hours' notice.

Laroche's Prestige Tasting Tour costs €75 ($81) and must be booked at least two weeks ahead.

Maison Simonnet-Febvre's shop and cellars welcome visitors for a tasting all year, Tuesday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Its vaulted cellar visit with a guided tasting is by appointment. In Préhy, Maison Brocard's Discover tasting of three cuvées, about 45 minutes for €7 ($8), runs on site or by reservation.

Mâconnais

Near Mâcon, Domaine Auvigue in Fuissé books its Initiation en Mâconnais by phone or email. The visit covers a winery in a 12th-century Romanesque church, an aroma workshop and four wines, in about 1 hour 30 minutes, from €25 ($27).

Domaine des Arbillons in Sologny has no online booking: contact it by phone or through its website, with visits from €10 ($11). The VitiPass, from €35 ($38) per adult, includes one tasting for two people at each of three partner wineries. Collect it at the Mâcon tourist office.

Finding more domaines

Burgundy has more than 260 tourist cellars. Estates with the Vignobles & Découvertes wine-tourism label, created in 2009, pass an audit coordinated by the BIVB, display a sign at the entrance and commit to a welcome in French and other languages.

The BIVB's online cellar search covers winegrowers, négociants and cooperative wineries. It filters by village, the dates of your stay, tastings or cellar visits, and languages spoken, including English.

Before you go

• In September and October, some estates are less available because of the harvest and cellar work.
• From November to March, fewer wineries are open.
• Bouchard Aîné & Fils doesn't run its Parcours des 5 Sens on the Wine Sale weekend, November 13–15, 2026.
• Ask about fees when you book at Bouchard Père et Fils and Joseph Drouhin.
• Leave pets at home for Château de Meursault, which doesn't accept animals.
• Spit or choose a designated driver if you are driving between domaines.

For the wider region, see Burgundy.