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Le château en bref
The Château de Meursault, in the Côte-d'Or, dates back to the 11th century, when Duke Robert I of Burgundy granted the fief to one of his squires. Changing hands several times during the conflicts between Burgundy and the French Crown, it was acquired by Pierre Legoux de La Berchère in 1645, then by François de Raigecourt and his wife Béatrice de Beaufremont in 1662, before passing in 1666 to Pierre de Blancheton, a lawyer at the Parlement of Burgundy. Confiscated and sold during the Revolution to Pierre Jobard, a merchant from Beaune, it was enlarged in the early 19th century by the Serre family. The Comtesse de Moucheron inherited it in 1928; André Boisseaux bought it and fully restored it in 1973, before the Halley family acquired it at the end of 2012. Its Cistercian-inspired cellars, dug between the 12th and 19th centuries over 3,500 m², can hold more than 800,000 bottles and 2,000 oak barrels. The 65-hectare estate, covering five grands crus and eighteen premiers crus across the Meursault, Pommard, Volnay, Puligny-Montrachet, Aloxe-Corton and Savigny-lès-Beaune appellations, welcomes around 20,000 visitors a year to its tasting cellar.
