Château de Gevrey-Chambertin

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The Château de Gevrey-Chambertin is a castle located in Burgundy, 12 km from Dijon and 30 km from Beaune. Both, the castle and 5 acres (2.0 ha) of associated wineyard land, were purchased in 2012 by a businessman named Louis Ng of Macao, for the price of $10 million ($14 million in 2025).

History: The castle of Gevrey-Chambertin, was definitely considered revisited in the second half of the 13th century, and was, during St Bernard lifetime, and even probably lightly early, a priory belonging to the Abbey of Cluny. Hughes, Bishop of Auxerre, and his sister Maheldis – both descendants of Manasses of Vergy, a powerful leader of Burgundy in the 9th century, in 1015 and 1019 donated the "CURTIS" called Gevrey to the monastery of Cluny of which abbot was there St Odilon. These, Yves de Poisey and his nephew Yves de Chazan; Both abbots of Cluny and born of the lords of Vergy, gave its first official appearance to the building, between 1257 and 1275 – a vast rectangle, surrounded with moats. The southwest entry was composed of a stone bridge, and further a drawbridge, flaked by two square towers. A big square lower stood at the south corner, and at the north was a...