À group of wine club nutters decided to drive 6h to and from Burgundy today to visit two caves, Patriarche Joseph Drouhin. Patriarche is one of the biggest caves in Beaune, built under an old convent, with 100K+ bottles stacked in and between multiple cellars connected by kilometers of tunnels under the city.
Drouhin is theoOldest cave in Beaune. The original building dates from the 1300s and some of the cellars have stonework showing they were part of the original Roman walls of the city. They uncovered a goethic stone from the 1500s when they were doing some excavation work and the press dates from the 1600s.
