Le Clos Blanc, a mythical, mystical vineyard, is adjacent to the Chteau du Clos de Vougeot. This golden triangle, surrounded on all sides by great reds, first offered its pure, golden sacrament to its spiritual fathers, the first monks of Cteaux, in 1110. Known as The White Vineyard, it is like a diamond set in the centre of rubies.As old as the Clos de Vougeot, Le Clos Blanc de Vougeot was Cteaux Abbeys song of praise. The monks planted the first vines nine centuries ago, and the white wine pressed from the golden grapes filled the abbey-churchs cruets for almost 700 years. Such precious drops of gold, blinding and rare, are like an island of Chardonnay in an ocean of Pinot Noir... A single violin at the heart of an orchestra.Le Clos Blanc de Vougeot used to be known as the Petit Clos Blanc de Cteaux, or simply Vougeots white vineyard. Like the Clos de Vougeot, it was founded by the monks of Cteaux, which was constructed on the nearby plain in 1098. Saint Bernard was almost certainly present at the first harvests in Vougeot, which date back to 1110.This vineyard has always been planted with white grapes, a tradition started when the Cteaux monks planted the forerunners of todays Chardonnay to produce a white wine for their sacrament.This walled vineyard is special for another very rare reason. Despite the French Revolution in 1789 when national property was sold off, Le Clos Blanc de Vougeot remained a monopole, an undivided property. Nurtured by Jules Ouvrard then Jules Rgnier in the 19th Century, it belonged to LHritier-Guyot in the 20th Century and now forms a part of the Domaine de la Vougeraie, sole owner of the monopole.
