The Mâconnais and Beaujolais Wine Road

"Follow the grapes", all along the Burgundy Wine Road from Saint-Gengoux-le-National to Fleurie.

8 new tourist itineraries, marked in different colours, connect the 70 villages located within these winegrowing regions:

• Itinerary 1 - 42 km - 10 stops
• Itinerary 2 - 60 km - 9 stops
• Itinerary 3 - 40 km - 9 stops
• Itinerary 4 - 90 km - 9 stops
• Itinerary 5 - 50 km - 12 stops
• Itinerary 6 - 40 km - 8 stops
• Itinerary 7 - 25 km - 5 stops
• Itinerary 8 - 45 km - 10 stops

The Tourist Road through Burgundy's Celebrated Vineyards

Less than two hours from Paris, Lyon and Geneva, this route through the Burgundy wine country, signed over a distance of some one hundred kilometres, includes nearly 40 wine villages in its itinerary.

From Santenay (in Côte d'Or) to Saint-Gengoux-le-National, it enables discovering a very fine growing region renowned for its outstanding Burgundy appellations: Rully, Mercurey, Givry, Montagny, Bouzeron, Bourgogne Côte Chalonnaise, Maranges, and Côte de Couchois.

Contact:
Route Touristique des Grands Vins de Bourgogne
CCI de Chalon-sur-Saône, Autun, Louhans
Tel. 03 85 42 36 00 - Fax 03 85 42 36 01
E-mail: contact@laroutedesgrandsvins.com
Web site : http://www.laroutedesgrandsvins.com

For more info:
The Burgundy Wine Road map, produced by the BIVB trade organisation, is available in all of the region's Tourist Offices and from the Departmental Tourism Bureau.
Wine cellars welcome visitors travelling any of the five marked itineraries, from north to south:
- the Yonne Tourist Route,
- the sparkling wine ("crémant") road,
- the Burgundy Prestige Wine Tourist Route,
- the Famous Wines Tourist Route,
- and the Mâconnais-Beaujolais Wine Road.

Burgundy's Organic Wine Road

A number of local winemakers have elected to grow organic wines on their estates in the Côte Chalonnaise, Couchois and Mâconnais regions.

Contact:
Biobourgogne Association
19, avenue Pierre Larousse
BP 382
89006 AUXERRE CEDEX
Tel./Fax 03 86 72 03 72
E-mail: bba@biobourgogne.fr