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Hibiscus lingers in Burgundian fashion, and the wine boasts earthiness of shaved white truffle. In Burgundy, one of the region’s most expensive wine regions. This wine is a stunning example of terroir, with all of the typical aromas of Burgundian button mushrooms

Elio famously knocked on one of the doors of a winemaker in Burgundy, with a beautiful silver Porsche As opposed to winemakers in Burgundy with their new Porsches and boats on the riviera, Elio was stuck These producers drink red Burgundy, compare it to their latest experiments, and consider new techniques

yet no one had yet produced a Pinot that could truly lay siege to the seemingly modest domaines of Burgundy Joseph Drouhin of Domaine Drouhin invited him to participate in a rematch held in Beaune, Burgundy the Lett’s light handed-approach in the winery and vineyard not only impressed the greats of Burgundy, but A perfect storm would launch Burgundy into the limelight. Northern Oregon’s weather can be as temperamental a Burgundy’s, late season rains are not an uncommon

wine - neither sweet with rigid minerality as its Mosel neighbors, nor perfumed and bone dry as in Burgundy Notably, the Pinot produced here is far from Burgundy. Unlike in Burgundy, there are no Premier Cru sites in Alsace, yet… However, the possibility for future

The wines were well received, adjudicators comparing them to top Burgundies and Champagnes of the time region to being growing Chardonnay, the ever popular conquistador of the New World’s wine regions from Burgundy

rather, cheaper than Châteauneuf, but for a region whose auspices seem to harbor the vigneronic clout of Burgundy Châteauneuf, because this appellation was also used as Vin de Medicene to strengthen the reds Bordeaux and Burgundy They are kept in thin, Burgundy-like bottles, used nowhere else in the world, giving them an aura of

glitzy, and glamorous, and the romantic wine producing regions of the world, there have always been the Burgundies A lover of wine, and specifically the greats of Burgundy, at that, Clement and his court propped up the pope, was coined to describe the wines grown in the New Castle area, making them distinctively more Burgundian The region managed to stay relevant to even the high-brow production houses of Burgundy, because prior these growers in need of Vin de Médecin, a sort of dark, rich concoction that served to strengthen Burgundian

later in the season and risk all of the usual molds and frosts of typical cold-climate regions like Burgundy

Why is it that every interesting, high-acid red-producing region is the, Burgundy, of its country. Why must we compare everything to Burgundy, as though the overpriced, tired, often drab Pinots they push But I still hate stuffing wine regions like Mount Etna into the fold of Burgundy, when arguably, Mount Despite my gripes, Etna does share a lot of similarities with Burgundy, the wines are light, brick red The Etna Rosso Region is turning out some charmers, at great value, with Burgundy-level complexity.

With the advent of Burgundian viticultural practices, some producers have taken to single-vineyard or

Dujac in Burgundy are even attempting a carbon neutral operation through the use of new winemaking techniques noticing changes in the wines that makers are rolling out, whether it be fatter juicier flavors in Burgundy Will planting move north into Burgundy? Perhaps England? Furthermore, south, in Burgundy, vintages seem to get better and better. In seven-hundred years of wine records, these are the easiest harvests that Burgundy has ever known.

to say that the lieux-dits don’t vary between eachother, especially vintage-over-vintage - like any Burgundy My favorite aspect of Echézeaux, is that it consistently tents to be one of the earthier Burgundies and This wine is richer and soupier, as is common with 2015 Burgundy, but also no less complex or interesting