It has always seemed natural to the Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin that those who visit or dine at the château du Clos de Vougeot, be it only once, should have some written memento to mark their passage through this world-famous site. Born at the heart of Burgundy from an encounter between the Côte's unique geography and the long epic that is the history of the Cistercian order, the Clos de Vougeot has a very special emblematic importance. For this reason, and in response to specific demands, brochures intended as guides for visitors, illustrated albums recording the Confrérie's festivities and books retracing the Clos' past have appeared at regular intervals over the past fifty years. The last book in this sequence was published more than twelve years ago, and its print run is now exhausted. A successor was called for, and today that successor is about to come off the press. A new approach has been adopted, guided by three carefully chosen lines of pursuit.