Burgundy Wine

Folatieres is among the most celebrated premier crus of Puligny, high on the slope with thin soils over rock.

A monopole in the heart of Meursault, walled since the monks of Citeaux worked it in the 11th century and owned by one family alone.

Santenay is overwhelmingly a red wine appellation, and white Santenay is genuinely rare.

High-altitude Chardonnay from the Hautes-Côtes, where cool north-west facing slopes and a wide day-night swing keep the acidity that warm...

Gevrey produces the most structured reds in the Cote de Nuits, and even at village level the wines carry weight the rest of Burgundy doesn't.

Mazis sits directly alongside Chambertin itself and is widely held to be the closest in character to it, at a fraction of the price.

Savigny is one of the last genuinely affordable premier cru appellations in the Cote de Beaune.

The regional appellation, from a grower who also makes Puligny-Montrachet and Chambertin.

The hills behind the famous slope, higher and cooler, where prices have not yet followed the Cote d'Or.

Village Puligny from old vines on limestone, which gives the wine its characteristic tension between richness and cut.

A second white Santenay plot from the same family, farmed organically without certification.

Vosgros sits in a sun-trap amphitheatre on the left bank, which is why it gives a rounder, riper Chablis than most Premier Crus.

Mont Pelé is a named single vineyard rather than a blended Mâcon, and six generations of Lenoir know how to read it.

Montmains is the Premier Cru for anyone who wants tension rather than weight, and Labille leaves it almost entirely unoaked, letting 15 t...

The regional Bourgogne from a grower who also bottles Chambertin and Puligny-Montrachet, blended across plots in the Côte Chalonnaise and...

Enseignères sits immediately below Bâtard-Montrachet and Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet, about as good an address as a village Puligny can claim.

Pouilly-Fuissé is the Mâconnais at its most serious, and Lise Marie is made without any oak so the site rather than the barrel sets the tone.

Vines planted in 1963 in the centre of the Clos, in a vintage where April frost destroyed ninety per cent of the shoots and concentrated ...

Les Clos is the benchmark Chablis Grand Cru, and Fèvre farms 4.11 hectares of it — sixteen per cent of the appellation — on the sunniest upper slopes.

Marconnets sits at the top of the Beaune slope where the appellation runs into Savigny, and the parcel is only 0.67 hectares of 50-year-old vines.

Goulley went organic in 1991, among the very first in Chablis to do so, and still farms every hectare that way with minimal sulphur.

La Pièce sous le Bois is Meursault's highest and coolest Premier Cru, which is exactly why it holds its acidity in a hot year like 2022.

Le Rognet is among the firmer corners of the Corton hill, and the ripeness of 2022 meets it with 30% whole bunch and a full new-oak éleva...

Vaudésir is the most amphitheatre-like of the Chablis Grand Crus, and Fèvre's steep, fully south-facing 1.2 hectares give it energy rathe...