Top 4 Red Burgundy Communes

WINE TALK
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Some of the fun of trying different wines from Burgundy is comparing the commune characteristics. I am plotting my 2010 vintage buying strategy and checked my CT inventory to see if I had any areas that need bulking up. [training.gif]

My top 4 holdings by commune.

  1. Vosne-Romanee - by a few bottles.
  2. Chambolle-Musigny - just a few ahead of G-C. I’m feeling pretty good about this.
  3. Gevrey-Chambertin
  4. Volnay - and gaining on G-C.

What are yours?

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Vosne, Nuits, Volnay, and Chambolle, in that order. I’d like to get Chambolle to #2 but prices make that difficult.

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Ignoring Savigny-lès-Beaune:-

  1. Morey St Denis
  2. Gevrey-Chambertin
  3. Beaune
  4. Santenay

Wish I had more Chambolle & Vosne but… [help.gif]

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Andrew, I’m pretty sure that according WB rules, we are not allowed to acknowledge or comment upon the existence of SLB. It is like our Area 51. Sorry you live somewhere that does not exist. [highfive.gif]

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  1. Vosne (by a more than 2 to 1 ratio compared to my number 2 which I find somewhat surprising)
  2. Volnay
  3. Chambolle
  4. Nuits
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In order of bottles owned

Chambolle (by a huge margin)
Gevery Chambertin (a big surprise for me but I guess Fourrier skews my numbers)
Beaune
Volnay/Pommard/Vosne (all within 1 bottle of each other but Volnay techically wins)

I expected volnay to be higher.

If I include Fluerie I suspect that would crack the top 4

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Gevrey-Chambertin
Volnay
Chambolle-Musigny
Vosne-Romanee

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I THOUGHT I saw Will Smith and Bill Pullman the other day walking through town!

Turns out it was just Ray Walker and Mark Haisma. Grabbing my coat now… [bye.gif]

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Andrew, what producers/wines from Santenay would you recommend?

My answer:

  1. Vosne
  2. Nuits
  3. SlB
  4. tie between Beaune and Pommard
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I’m a Chambolle junkie, and that is bigger than Volnay and Gevrey combined, which are about tied for second place… I like it that way. Then #4 is Vosne, narrowly ahead of Morey.

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LOL [snort.gif]

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Vosne, Chambolle, Gervey and Marsannay.

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I’m doing this from memory so take it with a grain of salt but I’m pretty sure it’s

Chambolle
Savigny
Gevrey
Volnay (maybe Morey?)

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1,2,3,4…

All Vosne…


Vosne
Chambolle
Gevrey
Morey

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Could someone please explain which “report” category one would use in CT to generate this information? Or is there a better way to do that?

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region (Burgundy), sub-region, appelation, plus a little addition (bringing GCs, premiers, and villages together) will work. There’s probably a simpler way.

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What that generates is a list of Grand Cru vineyards plus a list of appellations for non-Grand Cru wines. The problem is that Grand Cru wines are not identified by commune, nor are they grouped within (or ordered by) commune, so far as i can tell.

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I’m not Andrew but Pousse d’Or’s Clos Tavennes, Roger Belland’s Beauregard and Gravieres, and Jessiaume’s Gravieres are all top notch.

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For me it’s turned around significantly last year, with Gevrey dropping out of the top 4 altogether.

Chambolle is now by far the best represented commune, double the amount of
Vosne, which is #2 and just edges out
Volnay by a bottle or two, but
Nuits is only 6 bottles behind to my amazement. I bought a lot of Chevillon LSG last year!

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Gevrey
Chambolle
Nuits
Vosne

The first two are very near each other. The third and fourth are also near each other, but at about half the amount of the first pair.