Burgundy’s Hautes-Côtes are home to some of the region’s most dynamic producers – and some of its most future-proof terroir. Here, our Burgundy Buyer, Adam Bruntlett, takes a closer look. Prices continue to rise in Burgundy, due to small crops and ceaseless demand. My search for value has sent me running for the hills – […]

Claire Naudin is on the margins of Burgundy – literally and philosophically. We meet her at Domaine Naudin-Ferrand in the Hautes-Côtes to discuss her occasionally unorthodox approach and 100-year vision. At estates up, down and around the Côte d’Or, savoir-faire is handed down from one generation to the next. When Claire Naudin took over her family domaine in […]

A champion of the Hautes-Côtes de Beaune, fourth-generation vigneron Sébastien Magnien talks to us about terroir, experience over education and the 2019 vintage.   “I’ve been in the vineyard and the cellar since birth,” says Sébastien Magnien, fourth-generation winegrower from the small village of Meloisey in the Hautes-Côtes de Beaune. “Both of my grandfathers were winegrowers.”  Sébastien Magnien in the Hautes-Côtes Sébastien has made a name for himself as a champion of the Hautes-Côtes de […]

Perched in amongst the cool slopes of the Hautes Côtes – a region that might once have been a source of lowlier bottlings – the Carré family crafts exceptional wines that offer pure pleasure. Burgundy Buying Assistant Will Heslop introduces the domaine A glitch occurs in the space-time continuum on the sleepy road from Pommard […]