Maconnais – mainly white wine such as Pouilly Fuissé, St Veran and Macon villages. Wines from villages such as Rully, Givry and Mercurey. Here are some of the greatest white wines.Ĭôte Chalonnaise – red and white wines and the “hidden secret” of Burgundy.
Here we find many of the great red wines of Burgundy.Ĭôte de Beaune – a mixture of red and white wine from villages such as Savigny-lès-Beaune, Pommard, Meursault, Puligny-Montrachet and Chassagne-Montrachet.
Wine regions of Burgundyīurgundy is divided into five wine regionsĬhablis and Auxerrois – mainly white wines around the village of Chablis with reds near the town of AuxerreĬôte de Nuits – mainly reds from world-renowned villages such as Gevrey Chambertin, Chambolle Musigny, Vosne Romanée and Nuits St Georges. Travel times can be particularly long away from the main autoroutes. For example, Chablis is 150km (nearly 100 miles) from Beaune and more than a 90 minute drive. Distances and travel times in Burgundy (and France generally) can be deceptively large and long. Geneva (Switzerland) and Lyon are about 225km (about 140 miles) and 150km (about 100 miles) respectively from Beaune. Beaune, the wine “capital” of Burgundy, is about 330km (about 200 miles) South-East from Paris. Location, Facts and figures Burgundy is an administrative region of France situated to the East of central France.