The Clos de Bèze appears in history in 640 as a property of the abbey of Bèze. In 1219 it passed to the canons of Langres, who kept it until the French Revolution, and its boundaries have not changed since the Middle Ages. The appellation was recognised as a grand cru on 31 July 1937. It covers 15 hectares, facing east between 240 and 280 metres, on brown soils, partly alluvial and partly scree, higher up, and clay-limestone lower down, over Jurassic marls and limestones full of marine fossils. Average production over 2017 to 2021 was 500 hectolitres a year, about 66,500 bottles.

The Bourgogne wine board describes the wine as deep ruby to black cherry, with strawberry, blackcurrant and gooseberry, fruit stones, liquorice and spices, then violet, moss and underbrush. On the palate, power, opulence and elegance unite in a full and complex body, and the wines keep for ten years at least. Clos de Bèze is one of the nine grands crus of Gevrey. Seven of them attach the name of Chambertin to their own; Clos de Bèze is the only one that places it first.

Among the estates with a page here, Domaine Prieuré Roch holds vines in the Clos de Bèze and makes its wine without added sulphites.

The wines above are the Chambertin-Clos de Bèze in the cellar. See also Gevrey-Chambertin, the other grands crus of Burgundy or the full range of Burgundy wines.