The name Burgundy (Bourgogne in French) comes from the Burundians, an ancient Germanic people originating in Bornholm who settled in the area during the early Middle Ages.
Burgundy’s best red and white wines set the gold standard for Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. At the top of their game, Burgundy wines are acknowledged as some of the most aromatically complex, seductive and silky on the globe. This thanks in part to their indescribable melding of fruits, flowers, minerals, and earth, as well as their facility in projecting an authoritative flavor sans excess weight.
Unfortunately, for many, the best Burgundies are only produced in limited numbers. Burgundy wines can spell trouble for the non-connoisseur—there are still many examples of less than stellar, overpriced bottles for sale. This fact is due to the nature of the region’s vineyard ownership. An individual, small premier cru vineyard may be subdivided amongst a dozen or more owners. These owners may produce everything from plonk to exceptional wines—all at the same price—depending on the skills of the producer.
The Côte d'Or, or "golden slope," is the in heart of Burgundy and is home to the region’s most famous, and pricey, wines. This 30-mile-long ribbon of vineyards is where all the Grand Cru vineyards (except for Chablis Grand Cru) are found. The Côte d'Or lies just south of Dijon extending to Chagny. The greater Burgundy region also envelopes Chablis to the northern extreme, while the Côte Chalonnaise and Maconnais regions are located to the south of the Côte d'Or. Beaujolais, at the extreme southern end of the Burgundy region, almost touches the outreaches of Lyon.
View From The Cellar, 92 points: The 2014 Petits Vougeots was also one of the slower wines to finish up its malo this year in the Hudelot cellars and the wine still had just a bit of CO2 on the palate as a result. However, this was still quite easy to...
Burghound, 91 points: (BH89-91 points) An exuberantly fresh nose of various dark berries, plum and soft earth hints leads to impressively rich, round and voluminous middle weight flavors that retain a reasonably good sense of definition on the...
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 92 points: (90-92 points) The 2012 Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Au Closeau has a very attractive ‘bonbons’ bouquet – like walking into a sweet shop – very pure and fragrant. The palate is medium-bodied with supple, ripe tannins. There...
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 92 points: The Raphet 2008 Chambertin Clos de Beze smells alluringly of ripe dark cherry, licorice, ginger, blond tobacco, and hyacinth. Supple and tender, loaded with lightly-cooked cherry yet preserving a vintage-typical fruit...
View From The Cellar, 92 points: 92+ These thirty year-old vines are beautifully-situated in Rugiens, at the very bottom of the Rugiens Hautes section of the vineyard. The inherent elegance of the 2012 vintage is very much in evidence in the lovely...
Stephen Tanzer's IWC, 94 points: (ST91-94 points) Good bright, full red. Complex nose melds raspberry, coffee and smoky graphite minerality. Juicy, sappy and serious, with a distinctly tactile quality to the saline, smoky dark berry flavors. The sweet...
Stephen Tanzer's IWC, 94 points: (ST92-94 points) (just three barrels; includes some Clos de Beze) Deep red. Superripe aromas of cherry, rose petal and caramel. Silky-sweet and a bit high-toned, with a sappy spice character to the superripe, intense red...
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