Super helpful - thank you for your insight
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Thanks for sharing this list - great work
I have tried all vintages in different volume and level and generally agree with your notes. My favourite young is also 2019. The vintages I am staying away from is 2014 and 2018 - not that they are bad, but I prefer other young vintages. You have no notes on 2004 - I actually think that many has turned out nice - I recently really enjoyed Meo Camuzet Brulees 2004.
Yeah I can’t stand green notes so don’t have very many notes on 11 or 04.
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Glad to have one fewer competitor for 2005s in auctions. 
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Are you guys really all drinking $1000/btl+ wines? They account for like 2/3 or more of all posts and replies here.
Would be good to know about the non-Veblen tiers of Burgundy
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You (and anyone else) is welcome to post about the wines they drink. I post about the wines I drink.
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You are a gentleman and a scholar, Michael, thanks for the great work!
I would note that not all these wines are 1000+, but more importantly, the vintage characteristics should be applicable to other bottles, not just the GCs
I just posted here. Yeah it’s almost all GC but not the tier Michael drinks. I really enjoy his posts. I know I won’t experience those wines any other way.
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They totally are not broadly applicable though. They are 0.000001% of burgundies and are not representative of burgundy as a whole. That’s the point of my post
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I’m not following here. What kind of tasting, let’s say 5-10 bottles would “represent burgundy as a whole?”
How would you define that?
A couple of birthday dinners in Tokyo:
First at Luonto
The Fourrier 2010 Gevrey 1er Goulottes VV was amazing. Equal to the 2008 Roumier Bonnes Mares. We bought the Fourier, a glass of the Roumier was a birthday gift from the owner (who now knows of the WB forum!).
Second at Kien for an amazing kaiseki meal,. A Bouchard Chambolle 2019 punched way above its weight for a village wine.
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While I generally agree that the vintage characteristics aren’t broadly applicable to all burgundies in the vintage, we can only post experiences on wines we’ve had. I will note that in the last several posts there’s been quite a bit of discussion about villaine mercurey which is a $50 wine.
I don’t drink wine very often and many of the wines I drink are going to be in the 1-2k+ price point because those are the wines I cellar and drink. I’ll post notes on some other burgundies that are less expensive at times such as the Millot, Dureuil Janthial, and other wines, but the vast majority of the wines I drink are higher end.
People are welcome to post notes about any red burgundies at any price point.
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Nice showing for the Fourrier, I’m a big fan of the goulots!
Well, we know you aren’t because you sell them all to feed the poor…
I think the spirit of the thread is to speak broadly about vintage experiences and specific wines in general. I think we can agree that 2020 is a rather structured vintage that will take time to come around. Broadly speaking 2017 has been very open and a pleasure to drink. Are there wines that don’t meet that definition and fit neatly into those boxes? Sure. While I don’t have the wines @mchang mentions, I think his notes are helpful for my modest selection of Burgundy and when I should consider opening certain vintages or what to seek out when backfilling.
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And I would add that if you have consumed other bottles that don’t correspond to his comments above, by all means share them. It will only help out and further the conversation
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What are your favorite vintages post 2010 of the Fourrier Goulots?
15-17 and 19 are all fantastic. If you like 10, you’ll probably really like the 16.
Anything outside the .00001%.