I’m selfishly cutting and pasting some great burg advice from old threads, so I can readily access the information in the future. Feel free to add to it. Hopefully someone besides me finds this useful.
It would be great if someone could fill in older vintage reports and drinking windows, as well as villages and producers of elegant burgs that don’t require a second mortgage. No iron-clad price range, but many of the GC’s and sought-after producers with be outside my financial wheelhouse.
Thanks to Howard Cooper and Peter Hirsch and others for previous advice.
For me, after the ones Alan suggests, this is most important:
Buy, taste at ALL levels of the Burgundy hierarchy in whatever vintages/producers you buy/taste.
It’s the only way you will evaluate for yourself–and learn about the region’s wines…and the value of the trophier wines and appellations…and be able to evaluate vintages per se, i.e., context.
And, visit if you can…for further context in doing the above. I don’t know any region that so rewards, with education, on site visiting.
The most valuable post on burg for a newbie has to be the one from a few years back with the graph showing where all the producers fit in terms of style on 2 axes. Can’t remember who did it but always wish I’d saved that!
