Our Burgundy Director Jasper Morris MW reports from the region as the vignerons of the Côte d’Or are once more the subject of nature’s whimsy, with their vineyards battered by frost and hail. The recent weather pattern has been for cool sunny days and starry cloudless nights, both infused by a cool north wind: too […]

Following the release of the 2014 vintage, we are immersed in all things Burgundy. Here our Head Chef Stewart Turner continues the theme with two classic dishes from the region that produces some of the world’s finest wines. With the excess of Christmas just behind us, we turn our attention to the launch of the […]

Will Heslop – Buying Assistant – recounts the trials, tribulations and triumphs of his quest to collect the precious samples for our Burgundy en primeur tasting. The Burgundy en primeur offer is, for many of our customers, the highlight of the wine calendar: a first chance to become acquainted with a new vintage and to […]

Following on from his comparable report on Bordeaux, our Cellar Plan Manager Tom Cave outlines the vintages of both red and white Burgundy that you should be bringing up from the cellar this year. Red Burgundy The 1999s continue to develop very much in their own, individual, unhurried way. The 2000 and 2001 vintages are […]