{"id":2160,"date":"2022-08-29T13:24:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T13:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2022-08-29T13:24:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T13:24:59","slug":"visiting-beaune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=2160","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Beaune"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you are a true wine lover, then at some point in your life you have to go wine tasting in Burgundy.\u00a0 Now, Burgundy is a big place and it includes winemaking areas such as Chablis, Beaujolais and Mercurey, all sources for very fine wine.\u00a0 But when people think of Burgundy what they really have in mind is the fabled C\u00f4te d\u2019Or<\/em>, French for the Gold Coast.\u00a0 That\u2019s where the Grand Cru Chardonnays and Pinot Noirs come from.\u00a0 It runs from Dijon (of mustard fame) in the north to a cluster of villages on the road to Chalons to the south.<\/p>\n

And smack in the middle is the town of Beaune.<\/p>\n

Anyone who goes wine tasting in the C\u00f4te d\u2019Or will pass through or around Beaune.\u00a0 For many visitors, Beaune is simply a starting point for going somewhere else.\u00a0 Mostly they\u2019re going to villages that equate to wines, like Nuit St. Georges, Gevrey-Chambertin, Volnay, Pommard or Montrachet.\u00a0 We would like to recommend that you stop a while in Beaune itself.<\/p>\n

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The Place Carnot in Beaune.\u00a0 Photo courtesy of Beaune Tourism.<\/em><\/p>\n

The center of town is the Place Carnot, named after 19th<\/sup> century President of France who had the ill luck to be assassinated.\u00a0 There is a small carousel in the middle of that, that in its way says this is pleasant square is in a pleasant town where visitors are always welcome.<\/p>\n

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Cheeses at the shop of Alain Hess.\u00a0 Photo courtesy of Wine Keller.<\/em><\/p>\n

The square is ringed by shops and cafes.\u00a0 One shop kept bringing us back time after time: Alain Hess, Maitre Fromager (Master Cheesemonger).\u00a0 Charles DeGaulle once questioned how anyone could manage a country with 500 types of cheese.\u00a0 We never counted, but we think you can find all 500 of them at M. Hess\u2019 shop.\u00a0 And of course he can sell you the wine and some charcuterie to go with the pique-nique <\/em>you\u2019ll have next to a vineyard.<\/p>\n

There are lots of interesting things to do while you\u2019re in Beaune.\u00a0 In a previous edition, we\u2019ve described the Hospices de Beaune<\/a>, which is a treasure not to be missed whatever else you do in the region.\u00a0 You can do some in-town tasting at Louis Jadot or at numerous oenoth\u00e8ques.\u00a0 There\u2019s the Mus\u00e9e de Vin, which is installed at the former palace of the Dukes of Burgundy.\u00a0 And here\u2019s a special tip: We\u2019re not sure it still exists, but if you walk down the Rue du Faubourg Madeleine, away from the Place Carnot, on your right there\u2019s a nondescript tabac<\/em> with the best chocolate ice cream we\u2019ve ever eaten.<\/p>\n

There are many restaurants in the C\u00f4te d\u2019Or where you can dine on French haute cuisine, and a few of them are in Beaune itself.\u00a0 But if you want to feel<\/em> French while you dine, go to a little caf\u00e9 in Beaune where you can order a meal made from the fine Burgundian farms.\u00a0 Start with escargot, drowning in garlic butter.\u00a0 Then it\u2019s either a boeuf bourguignon made from local Charolais beef or a roast poulet de Bresse<\/em>, considered the finest chicken in France.\u00a0 There will be local cheese before dessert, such as the bleu from the aforementioned Bresse.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0You will soon realize that you\u2019ve spent an afternoon indulging yourself, all the while pretending that you\u2019re a local.<\/p>\n

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If you are a true wine lover, then at some point in your life you have to go wine tasting in Burgundy.\u00a0 Now, Burgundy is a big place and it includes winemaking areas such as Chablis, Beaujolais and Mercurey, all sources for very fine wine.\u00a0 But when people think of Burgundy what they really have … Continue reading Visiting Beaune<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2164,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions\/2164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}