Much of the wonderful enjoyment of Burgundy for me has come from relatively inexpensive bottles, and I want other people to have a place to share their experiences with burgundy vintages for those bottles that are more relatively attainable. Setting a somewhat arbitrary maximum of a market value of $200 or less to keep things accessible to newer followers of burgundy!
so kicking off this thread where there need not be references to blue chip bottles, us “poor” burgundy lovers can relate our experiences with these wines.
Most recently, I’ve enjoyed a lot of these wines and will kick it off with the following
Audoin Bourgogne 2018: loads of ripe red Fruits and floral notes. Relatively simple and delicious, bright and lifted with no shortage of fruit in the middle
Henri Magnien GC Cazetieres 2020: very pure red fruit, spice and perfume. Great palate depth, long and persistent red fruit. Quite concentrated but never brooding, this was a real delight
I was just going to buy that Magnien Cazetiers in the 2017, but the only availability was through one of those things where the checkout process is right there on the wine-searcher.com search results page. I don’t know if WS has their own retail store now or if it’s more deeply integrated partnership with another retailer. But when I tried to buy this way before it was sketchy. I didn’t really know who I was dealing with. No website of an actual retailer, no customer service phone number, etc. if you see this kind of thing, be careful
FYI — I really like the idea of a ‘VFW on the gritty side of town’ burgundy thread. Where guys can share notes on a Pommard with a straight face. We’ll see if it gets traction.
I had the 17 Cazetiers right after release (notes are on here from 2020) and I felt like it was super young and oak was noticeable. I think it would be drinking well now. The first is quite pure. A lot of people are quite high on Henri Magnien; I haven’t had a wine from him that I’ve really liked so far, but given the praise for his wine from people whose palates I trust I may give them another chance.
Can we post thoughts on wines that we spent less than $200 on? I am more likely to know what I spent than what a wine is currently worth. I acknowledge that some wines might have appreciated since.
Aromatically explosive with lovely cherry fruit and some earth, but very clean and pretty. Palate had lovely elegant filigreed texture with a softer structure but immensely long finish. Very iron fist in velvet glove.
Guesses were all over the place, including 93 Rousseau Chambertin, 89 Mugnier Musigny, 91 DRC RSV(!), and some thoughts of 1er Chanoble, mostly from 80-90s. The reveal was pretty shocking, but just indicative of how good the wine is. I recently noticed that I have more Ramonet reds than any other red burgundy in my cellar.
Do whatever you want! Just want those people who are interested in burgundy that there are tons of good wines that don’t require spending a load of cash
Yay! This is why we taste blind in our group. Not to see who can guess correctly but rather to remove the bias that we naturally have (and one that many a berserker claims to not possess)
I think it’s nice to do blind tastings sometimes for sure, it helps you to understand characteristics when done in a structured manner.
However, I tend to structure tastings/dinners with the goal of vintage, producer, or vineyard exploration. I think some single blind tasting may be useful from time to time though.
Nope, lots of random wines, not really many high end ones.’ Maybe people just expected I’d bring something high end. You can read the list of wines and my tasting notes in John’s post in the event planner forum.
