We have just spent a week in burgundy and Paris (4 nights each), will focus comments on wine and food and some logistics.
We stayed at Hotel Olivier Leflaive in Puligny Montrachet, 4 stars, not fancy, but very friendly and well located for our needs.
We arrived late afternoon Saturday and had a dinner reservation (must reserve) at Papi in Chassagne Montrachet. It was a 30 minute walk through the vineyards (past several grand crus) with a strong flashlight required for the walk back. Food was exceptional and wine list extremely good and prices were very, very low compared to US. Pick a 100 euro Burgundy that is probably $150 retail in the US (if you can find it) and $400 at a restaurant. Cannot recommend more highly.
Next day we walked to Meursault (maybe 90 minutes) through Vineyards again and some hills to stay away from the roads. Had lunch at Les Murisaltiens, not in a beautiful part of town but food very good (not quite at level of Papi) but food and wine priced very fairly. Like Papi, it was packed and good thing we made reservation. I should mention, we enjoy walking and hiking, obviously this can be done by car or bike, but uber not totally reliable.
Dinner that night at Maison Lameloise in Chagny, arranged car service both ways. Restaurant mostly full in a Sunday night. Food and service both very good but value of wine pairings were a real stand out, almost all sourced from Burgundy and mostly smaller but very highly regarded producers. Cannot recommend pairing more highly. Only downside was atmosphere, would not consider it a “fun” destination.
Next two days spent touring and tasting with Bill Nanson who has been mentioned before. We basically were tagging along while Bill tasted 2025 vintage, making notes on his laptop, mostly from barrel but a few from bottle. We tried 6-12 wines per Domaine, mostly 12 or so, thus spitting was required. Really a lot of fun, visited Joseph Voillot, Thierry Glatenay, Chandon de Briailles, henri Gouges, du Couvent and Briotet. Highly recommend, and late October and November ideal timing as that is when the domaines start sharing the previous year’s vintage to critics, distributors and others.
Dinners were at Montrachet at hotel Como (fine but not best on trip) and Klima at Olivier Leffaive (very good food, service and wine)
In Paris, first dinner was Alleno, probably finest meal of the trip but badly offset by wine pairings. We chose the more expensive “exceptional” pairing and will just say maybe 2 of the 7 qualified for exceptional with several very common and retailing for $40 or less. If we had simply ordered a bottle off the relatively fairly priced list it would have been one of the best dining experiences ever. It was the best bread ever.
Casual dinners were at Juveniles and A.Lea, standard of cooking very high at both, prices of food and wine very fair, highly recommend both.
Final dinner at Jules Verne, food just slightly below standard of Alleno and Lameloise, most of the courses were seafood so we ordered a bottle of white burgundy (prices high but not London or New York high) and then a glass of red to go with duck course.
Wonderful trip and really wonderful weather, we got lucky there