Who owns the Clos de Vougeot?

The building

In 1944, the Société civile des Amis du Château du Clos de Vougeot purchased the building and entrusted it to the Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin on a ninety-nine-year lease. This arrangement explains the current situation: a civil society owns the building, while a brotherhood brings it to life. The Confrérie was founded in 1934 in Nuits-Saint-Georges during the wine crisis and has around twelve thousand active members worldwide; it holds its chapters and initiation dinners in the Grand Cellier since the post-war period. The château has been classified as a historic monument since 1949 and, since July 4, 2015, has housed the headquarters of the association of the Climats of the Burgundy vineyard, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list. The details of successive owners are on the history of the Clos.

The vineyard

The château no longer owns a single plot and no longer produces wine. The fifty hectares of the Clos belong to more than eighty owners and producers, a legacy of the confiscations of 1790, the sales of the 19th century, and the division in 1920 of Étienne Camuzet’s fifteen hectares among fifteen buyers. The largest owner of a single contiguous plot is the Domaine du Château de la Tour.

Why the confusion?

Because the building and the appellation have shared the same name for nine centuries, even though their histories diverged at the Revolution. You visit a château that no longer makes wine, and you drink a wine that comes from none of the château’s cellars. The count of owners is detailed on this page.

See the Clos with someone who knows the domains

The day trip from Beaune passes by the Clos and includes a tasting of fourteen wines at a domain, a winemaker in Nuits-Saint-Georges, and a shop in Chambolle-Musigny. Maximum eight people, rated 4.9 out of 311 reviews.

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