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The Domaine Chifflot, located in Gevrey-Chambertin in Burgundy-Franche-Comté, was built between 1710 and 1715 by the master-counsellor at the Cour des comptes Chifflot. This estate illustrates the architecture of the mansions erected by the Dijon bourgeois families, owners of vineyards in the region in the eighteenth century. The ensemble, organized around a closed courtyard, includes a main house to the north and two operating buildings to the west and south, reflecting a typical organisation of the wine estates of the time.

In the 18th century, the property passed into the hands of another adviser, Jomard, holder of the prestigious vineyards of Clos de Bèze and Chambertin. The house retains remarkable architectural elements, such as a horse-drawn iron staircase and rooms decorated in the 19th century. The farm buildings, with their vaulted cellars and broken roofs, have preserved their original vineyard function, showing the continuity of activity since the beginning of the eighteenth century.

Around 1880, the estate was acquired by the Thomas-Bassot family and sold around 1980 to its current owner. The whole, classified as Historic Monument in 2015, remains an emblematic example of Burgundy wine estates, mixing aristocratic residence and farming. Its covered portal, arches in the middle of the wall and pediments highlight the bourgeois and parliamentary influence of the Dijon region.

The Domaine Chifflot embodies the lifestyle of the Dijon elites of the 17th and 18th centuries, which combined vineyard management and construction of secondary residences in the villages of the Côte. Its architecture and spatial organization, unchanged since the 18th century, make it a rare testimony of this time, when viticulture was inseparable from the social and economic prestige of parliamentary families.

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