Burgundy & Beaujolais

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Burgundy & Beaujolais

Burgundy & Beaujolais

24 - 28 May 2009

This popular tour is a great introduction to Burgundy and Beaujolais. The tour includes visits to good domaines and firms who also offer good value, not always easy to find in Burgundy, as well as a day spent out in the beautiful countryside of Beaujolais.

We stay for four nights in Beaune at a family-owned 2* hotel just a short walk from the centre or at the 4* Hotel de la Poste overlooking the city walls. Beaune, Burgundy's Wine Capital, has a wonderfully preserved old centre with many medieval buildings still standing. You can walk round the battlements or simply enjoy a glass of wine at one of the cafés. The most stunning building is the Hotel Dieu, with its multi-coloured glazed roof tiles, built in 1451 for the sick and poor. There is a wealth of wine shops to explore and numerous restaurants from simple auberges to Michelin starred cuisine for you to choose from in the evenings.
The tastings in Burgundy will include wines from the Côte des Nuits where we taste a range of serious wines including some Premier Crus at Lucien Boillot and Domaine d’Ardhuy. A little to the south, in Santenay we visit Domaine Prieur-Brunet for a tasting of Premier cru wines from the villages of the Côte de Beaune where the wines seem to echo those of the northern Côte de Nuits.
We also visit Naudin-Ferrand, the out-performing estate in the Hautes Côtes de Nuits. As for superb white Burgundy, we'll taste at and have lunch at Olivier Leflaive in Puligny- Montrachet.

We spend a day to the south visiting Beaujolais with a stop in Pouilly-Fuissé to visit Château Fuissé whose ‘Vieilles Vignes’ and vineyard selections are rated among the best chardonnay wines worldwide and will have an enjoyable picnic style lunch at the beautiful Domaine Monrozier in Fleurie, where we taste their excellent Fleurie and serious Moulin à Vent.
On our way back to Calais, we will drop into a small Champagne House on the Côtes des Blancs where Chardonnay grapes are grown and taste their wines over a buffet lunch.
As on all our coach based tours, you have plenty of space to spread out - we never take more than 32 participants on a 48 seater coach – and, as you can bring back up to 36 bottles of wine per person you will have plenty of opportunity to stock up on these wonderful wines, at cellar door prices.