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.
Burghound, 91 points: (BH88-91 points) This too is quite firmly reduced. Like the Morey there is good freshness and pep to the mineralinflected medium-bodied flavors that are shaped by firm and ripe tannins on the sleekly muscular and robust...
Wine Enthusiast, 91 points: This is a beautiful, silky wine with fine, delicate tannins. Ripe strawberry and red cherry fruits are embedded in the elegant structure that is already heralding a wine of richness as well as spice from wood aging. Drink...
Wine & Spirits, 90 points: This has relatively lush, mellow tannins for a Gevrey, while the fruit is floral and fresh. It doesn’t feel heavily extracted, gaining its structure instead from zesty, high-toned acidity and a little stodgy bitterness...
Burghound, 94 points: (BH92-94 points) A pungent nose is composed of reductive aromas and oak toast. There is excellent intensity to the big-bodied flavors that are underpinned by phenolically mature tannins and an abundance of dry extract...
Wine Enthusiast, 95 points: Severe and austere at this stage, this solid, dark wine has all the weight of a wine from Gevrey, concentrated and densely tannic. It's firm, packed with dark plum fruit and perfumed acidity. It's foursquare, demanding...
Burghound, 92 points: (BH89-92 points) A hint of sulfur does not materially detract from the ripe and fresh nose that is comprised by notes of apple, acacia blossom and pear scents. There is a lovely underlying tension to the well-detailed and...
View From The Cellar, 90 points: (JG89-90+ points) The 2013 Gevrey V.V. was showing the best recovery of the three recently-racked wines and clearly will be a fine example of the vintage. The bouquet is deep and nicely black fruity, with a 1993-like...
Antonio Galloni's Vinous, 90 points: (AG88-90 points) Clair's Marsannay Les Grasses Têtes impresses for its stoniness and overall vertical sense of structure. Dark red cherry, plums, spice and tobacco notes are beautifully layered in a wine that brings...
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 91 points: (WA89-91 points) The 2013 Chambolle-Musigny Village has a very "Chambolle" nose, that is to say, full of forward mulberry and dark plum fruit tinged with sous-bois, an agreeable sense of roundness. The palate is...
Burghound, 91 points: (BH89-91 points) A slightly riper and more complex nose is composed by essence of pear, white peach and dried flowers. There is more volume as well as mid-palate concentration to the medium-bodied and palate coating...
View From The Cellar, 95 points: 95+ The 2013 Chambertin from the Rossignol brothers is another absolutely stellar young grand cru in the making, offering up a pure and youthful aromatic constellation of cassis, dark berries, grilled meat, cocoa, a...
View From The Cellar, 91 points: 91+ The 2013 Puligny villages is excellent, wafting from the glass in a refined blend of apple, white peach, a lovely base of limestone, orange zest and vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and exudes...
Antonio Galloni's Vinous, 92 points: (ST90-92 points) (Grivot's vines are adjacent to the En Orveaux climat of Echézeaux; a blend of 85-, 45- and 40-year-old vines): Bright medium red. Musky aromas of crushed raspberry and mint are accented by a note of...
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-Frank B., October 2017