Category: Burgundy Wine

Burgundy 2015: A midsummer update

Recently returned from Burgundy (where he spends most of the year), Jasper Morris MW – our Burgundy Director – reports on the 2015 growing season thus far, and the prospects of the 2014 vintage. It was not just the players and spectators at Wimbledon who were melting in the heat as June gave way to […]

Étienne de Montille on the philosophy of winemaking

With Burgundy on our mind – and palate – in the midst of Burgundy 2013: En Primeur, we caught up with Étienne de Montille, who has taken Château de Puligny-Montrachet from strength to strength since taking over in 2001. Here he shares his impassioned blueprint for making great Burgundy. I try to make the wine that […]

Exceeding expectations

Following on from yesterday’s annual Burgundy en primeur tasting, Anne McHale MW shares the wines that she felt stood out from the crowd There was a great buzz at One Great George Street yesterday as press and customers alike joined Burgundian vignerons to explore the 2013 vintage. With more than 100 wines on show, it […]

What to drink in 2015: Burgundy

In part two of our series on which bottles to uncork in the coming year, our Cellar Plan Manager Tom Cave examines the Burgundy vintages reaching their peak White Burgundy It’s generally felt that only a few wines from vintages that predate 2002 will be holding up, of those since the 2003s are fully ripe […]