Burgundy Wine

Village Puligny blended across more than twenty parcels, so it shows the appellation as a whole rather than one plot.

Vaulorent is the Premier Cru that behaves like a Grand Cru, sharing its slope with Les Preuses and parted from it only by a path.

Nuits-Saint-Georges is usually the firmest village in the Cote de Nuits, and this bottling shows its other face: purity and lift rather than muscle.

A single hectare in Meursault, two hundred metres from Puligny-Montrachet, bottled under the humbler Bourgogne Côte d'Or appellation.

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.

Genevrières is the Meursault premier cru that gives weight without losing its line, and Bouzereau's version has both.

Sarah Marsh MW buys from growers who rarely sell their fruit, so this is single-parcel Volnay made with a taster's precision.

Village Meursault from a grower who keeps the winemaking deliberately quiet — wild yeasts, a fifth new oak, no heavy hand.

Santenay sits at the quiet southern end of the Cote de Beaune and rarely draws the attention its neighbours get.

Saint-Véran borders Pouilly-Fuissé and shares much of its limestone, and Plaisance comes from plots at the foot of the appellation's best slopes.

Rully is where the Cote Chalonnaise makes white Burgundy that tastes like the Cote de Beaune without the Cote de Beaune bill, and Vauvry ...

Mâcon-Bussières rarely gets its own label, and Le Vieux Puits is a north-facing single site that holds its acidity in a warm corner of Burgundy.

White Santenay is scarce in a village that mostly makes red, and Clos des Champs Carafe is the highest walled vineyard in it.

Fèvre owns more Premier and Grand Cru land in Chablis than anyone, and Montmains is where that shows without the Grand Cru price.