09/09/2026
Some wine cellars are for aging wine - but at one point, the Drouhin cellars were also an escape route from the Gestapo!
During WWII, Maurice Drouhin was involved with the French Resistance. When the Gestapo came looking for him in 1944, he escaped through the family's ancient cellars beneath Beaune and made his way to the Hospices de Beaune, where he was hidden by the sisters until the liberation of the city.
And somehow, that's only one chapter in the history of Maison Joseph Drouhin.
Four generations later, the family is still making some of Burgundy's most celebrated wines.