This touristy, winemaking village is situated on the Route des Grands Crus in the Côte de Nuits.

Gevrey-Chambertin is one of the wine villages of the Côte de Nuits which lies along the foot of the Côte-d'Or escarpment, to the south of Dijon and with the broad Saône valley plain to its east.

The vineyards on the slope of the Côte d'Or form a strip below and east of the woodland on the Jurassic limestone hills.

The outline of 120 vine stocks was discovered in 2008, during the expansion of a residential development that was updating 300 septic tanks all lined up in an area of 6 km2.

The commune is twinned with Nierstein in the Rheinhessen wine region of Germany, and with the Belgian town Spy in the Namur province.