La Cave de la Cité — Restaurant in Dijon

Category: Wine shop with tasting. If you love wine, as we do, this is a truly wonderful place. Around the perimeter of the large main room are 140 wine dispensers. The wines are half red, half white, mostly Burgundies. But there are a few choices from elsewhere in France and the world. You will be given a wine glass of quality glassware. Buy a card from the Mademoiselle du Vin and load it with as much money as you want. Insert the card into the dispenser and choose the wine you want to taste and the size of the tasting, small, medium, or large. The dispenser subtracts the price of your wine and size choice. The card can be reloaded and you will be refunded any unused value on the card. Each wine may have a different price. In the lower level cave are 40 more dispensers for high-end wines. The facility itself is beautiful: soaring wood walls with floor to ceiling wine bottles, post-and-beam roof structure, wine barrel tasting tables, a central tasting counter with metal stools, arched stone cave for the high-end wines, an upper-level tasting area with big tables, and plentiful outdoor seating on an elevated deck. The Rolling Stones quietly serenaded us while we sipped. We tasted 10 wines like this: we chose 5 sets of two wines in the smallest sized pour, 4 sets on the main floor and one set from the cave. We shared each glass, half and half. This way, we controlled both the overall cost and quantity consumed. All of the wines are also available for purchase by the bottle, as are wines that are not available for tasting, including an impressive collection of high-end bottles. My only complaint is that about half of the dispensers had empty bottles. YouTube’s...

Unfortunately this place looks really authentic and is just for tourism You have a recharge card for the wine tasting which is easy option however there is no service or knowledge transferred so some what a waste of time unless you want to be on your phone scanning each bottle The crux of the bad is there is only 40/50% of the bottle with actual wine and maybe 3/4 bottle in the exclusive grand cru downstairs We tried two small glasses that emptied before giving the serving what a joke Please go into town and visit the privately owned Vin Cave store and talk with the lovely Owners and staff and get...

We enjoyed the concept of being able to try many different wines at three different price points per wine (3, 5, 12 cl). The prices are reasonable and being able to choose what you want and how you want was great. However, the biggest dissapointment was that only about 70% of the regular wines were actually available and only about 15% of the premium bottles were available to try. If they had selections upwards of 90% available, then this would be an...