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EXPERIENCE Burgundy and Franche-Comté 17 stretching across the the 15th and 19th centuries. HIDDEN GEM

Côte d’Or vineyards,
Burgundy landscape

The church contains a
Semur-en-Auxois
Maison Joseph
tympanum with the legend of
Drouhin
! E3 ⌂ Côte d’Or @ n 2
north door way to the 15th-
place Gaveau www.
century Entomb ment by
in the Côte d’Or has
tourisme-semur.fr
Antoine le Moiturier. The
Roman remains, and
during World War II, its
Approached from the west, Doubting Thomas on the This winemaker’s cave
stained glass presents the
Semur-en-Auxois comes as legend of St Barbara, and the owner, a Resistance
a surprise on an otherwise work of different guilds such fighter, fled the gestapo
uneventful road. Its massive as butchers and drapers. through a tunnel here to
round bastions, built in the Époisses is the site of the the Hospices de Beaune.
14th century (one with an moated Château d’Époisses,
unnerving gash in it) suddenly its 11th- to 18th-century con-
appear, towering over the struction blending medieval Squeezed into the flat plain of
Pont Joly and the peaceful towers with fine Renaissance the Saône to the south east
River Armançon. details, and a huge dovecote. and a plateau of woodland to
The Église Notre-Dame Époisses is also the home of the north west, this narrow
dates from the 13th and 14th one of Burgundy’s most re- escarpment is about 50 km
centuries, and was modelled vered cheeses, available at the (30 miles) long. The grapes of
on the cathedral local café or fromagerie. the foremost Burgundy
of Auxerre. The vineyards grow in the golden
fragile high Château d’Époisses reddish soil of the slope, which
walls had to be "' ⌂ Epoisses # Jul & has given the area its name.
restored in Aug: 10am, noon, 3 and The classification of the
6pm (via guided tours only) characteristics of the land
Wed–Mon ∑ chateau is fabulously elaborate, but for
depoisses.com the layman a rule of thumb is
that 95 per cent of the best
vines are on the uphill side of
18 the D974 thoroughfare. The
placenames on the sign posts
Côte d’Or here haunt the dreams of
wine lovers the world over:
! F4 ⌂ Côte d’Or k Dijon
£ @ Dijon, Nuits-St- Gevrey-Chambertin, Vougeot,
Georges, Beaune, Santenay Chambolle-Musigny, Vosne-
n Dijon; www.cotedor- Romanée, Meursault and
Chassagne Montrachet.
tourisme.com
In winemaking terms, the
Côte d’Or includes the Côte de
The imposing façade Beaune and the Côte de Nuits The honey-stoned Old
of Eglise Notre-Dame in a nearly unbroken line of Town of Beaune in the
in Semur-en-Auxois vines from Dijon to Santenay. golden glow of sunlight
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