The Clos was recognised as a grand cru on 31 July 1937. The enclosure covers 50.59 hectares, of which 49.43 are planted, and it has kept its identity within the walls built to surround it five centuries ago. The monks of Cîteaux founded it around 1110 and held it until the French Revolution; the château that still stands inside the walls dates from their time.

The slope runs from about 255 metres at the top to 240 at the bottom, and the soil changes with it: gravelly and 40 centimetres deep over limestone at the top, brown clay of 45 centimetres over broken limestone in the middle, and 90 centimetres of brown soil over marl at the foot. Because the vineyard is divided among so many owners, the Bourgogne wine board notes that no single description fits the wines. They share a very intense colour, from strawberry red to deep garnet, with rose, violet, blackberry and truffle, and can age from ten to thirty years or more. Average production over 2017 to 2021 was 1,730 hectolitres a year, about 230,000 bottles.

Among the estates with pages here, Domaine Jean Grivot, based in Vosne-Romanée, holds a parcel of the Clos and counts it among its three grands crus.

The wines above gather the Clos de Vougeot available here. See also Échezeaux, Chambolle-Musigny, Vosne-Romanée, the other grands crus of Burgundy or the full range of Burgundy wines.