The Côte-d'Or is the world epicentre of prestige vineyard land: along a fifty-kilometre band of slopes from Dijon to Santenay run the UNESCO-listed climats. A wine estate for sale in Côte-d'Or never waits long for a buyer — provided the sale is visible to the right candidates.
The market operates at several scales: the communal or premier cru plot, whose per-hectare price can exceed several million euros, the ouvrée of regional appellation on the plain or in the Hautes-Côtes, and the constituted estate with winery, whose value owes as much to the name as to the vines.
The Côte de Nuits (Gevrey-Chambertin, Vosne-Romanée, Nuits-Saint-Georges) concentrates the most valued reds; the Côte de Beaune (Meursault, Puligny and Chassagne-Montrachet, Pommard, Volnay) rules the great whites. The cooler Hautes-Côtes of Nuits and Beaune hold the last reasonably priced surfaces of a saturated department.
The gap between average and median sale prices is wider here than anywhere else: a few prestigious cru transactions pull the average far above the everyday market. To appraise a plot, the SAFER benchmark by appellation level remains the starting reference.
From published notarised sales (DVF), here is how the vine market in Côte-d'Or has moved: yearly volumes, average and median prices in Côte-d'Or.
Year | Sales | Average price (€/ha) | Median price (€/ha) |
2020* | 38 | 466,693 | 295,923 |
2021 | 85 | 523,945 | 268,714 |
2022 | 75 | 454,346 | 311,309 |
2023 | 90 | 758,513 | 540,000 |
2024 | 85 | 1,084,080 | 537,139 |
2025 | 106 | 880,756 | 456,626 |
Source: French DVF land registry, vine sales. *2020: second half only.
Between 2021 and 2025, the median price rose (+70%).
The 2025 SAFER benchmark positions, appellation by appellation, the value of unleased vines in Côte-d'Or:
Appellation | Average price 2025 (€/ha) | Price range 2025 (€/ha) |
Bourgogne premier cru blanc | 2,700,000 | 560,000 – 7,000,000 |
Bourgogne premier cru rouge | 1,150,000 | 490,000 – 5,800,000 |
Bourgogne appellations communales Côte de Beaune blanc | 1,080,000 | 410,000 – 2,250,000 |
Bourgogne appellations communales Côte de Nuits rouge | 925,000 | 197,500 – 1,975,000 |
Bourgogne appellations communales Côte de Beaune rouge | 540,000 | 300,000 – 1,800,000 |
Bourgogne appellation régionale | 58,000 | 32,000 – 107,000 |
Source: SAFER — 2025 market value of unleased vines.
To extend the analysis beyond this area, see our observatory of vineyard prices in France.
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