The Caves Patriarche in Beaune, five kilometres of cellars under a convent

the vaulted galleries under the convent of the Visitandines, two million bottles by candlelight and six wines to taste at the end, with young people getting in free

1 hourDuration

25 euros with the tasting; free under 18Price

all year, better on weekdaysWhen to go

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Under Beaune run the négociants' cellars, and the largest are those of Patriarche: five kilometres of vaulted galleries under the convent of the Visitandines, which Jean-Baptiste Patriarche bought in 1796. In the 1950s some thirty of them were joined together, and today it is a labyrinth with two million bottles ageing, barrels and lit candles. You do the visit on your own, at your own pace, with screens along the route in Italian too, and it ends with a tasting of six Burgundy wines, three whites and three reds, and the glass to take home. Young people get in free: no wine for them, but the labyrinth is enough.

Getting there

The motorhome stays at the municipal stopover on avenue Charles de Gaulle, and you walk to the cellar through the centre
The cellar is at number 5 rue du Collège, north of the Hôtel-Dieu; because of works in rue du Collège you sometimes cannot get through the main courtyard: you enter from rue Sainte-Marguerite, then rue Gandelot and turn left
The car parks the cellar suggests, Lorraine, des Buttes, République and Jardin Anglais, are for cars, and whether a motorhome fits is not stated

Practical information

Duration at least an hour, an hour and a half with an unhurried tasting and the shop

Price 25 euros with the tasting; free under 18

When to go all year, better on weekdays

Suitable for families with young people, who get in free and wander the galleries at their own pace; the tasting is forbidden to minors, and there is nothing for them to taste. The screens along the route speak Italian too, the tasting is led in French and English

Booking you can book a time slot online, at 9:30, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 and every half hour from 14:00 to 17:00, and the cellar confirms it; without booking you get in, if there is room, at 9:45, 10:15, 10:45 and every half hour from 14:15 to 16:45. At most ten people at a time, and at weekends and on public holidays these slots are usually full too. Say if there are children

Contacts

patriarche.com

+33 3 80 24 53 78

Where it is

Beaune · Borgogna

47.026393, 4.838332

You set off from

Beaune

0.9 km · Area camper di Beaune

3minutes

Dijon

44.8 km

36minutes

Notes

Visits every day, with the last departures at 11:00 and 17:00; the shop from 9:30 to 12:00 and from 14:00 to 18:00. The closures during the year are not published
The price of 25 euros is the one read on 6 October 2026, and the page does not give the year. On the weekend of the Hospices auction, 14 and 15 November 2026, the cellar runs a visit with ten great wines at 70 euros, on sale until 31 October
The Liberté tasting is of six wines depending on availability: three whites, from Savigny-lès-Beaune, Rully and Meursault, and three reds, from Santenay, a Beaune premier cru and a Nuits-Saint-Georges premier cru
The convent of the Visitandines dates from the seventeenth century, and some galleries go back to the thirteenth. The joining of some thirty neighbouring cellars was the work of André Boisseaux, from the 1950s
As early as the end of the eighteenth century Patriarche was shipping wine to England, Belgium and Holland
Along the route there are also contemporary works of art from a project with artists, Art In Situ
The other famous cellars of Beaune, Bouchard in the towers of the castle, Drouhin in the cellars of the dukes, the Marché aux Vins in the church of the Cordeliers, do not publish their prices and visits go through a booking form