Burgundy is really one of those places that is great to use to explain a few more general things. Last post I was saying about terroir and how everywhere in the world has it and is affected by it, but Burgundy’s one of those places where it’s easy to highlight the big differences it makes. …
The more you drink wine or spend time at wine dinners or tastings or what-have-you, you’ll hear this term pop up. Terroir (pronounced tare-wahr). Obviously it’s a french word but it’s now used pretty much across the world to describe the same thing. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is… …well it’s everything really. Well let’s …
Burgundy is dominated by Pinot Noir and Chardonnay plantings. From a business point of view you’d be nuts not to make sure you had a finger in that marketing pie if you were a producer. With lots of different AC names you can use with these two grapes, most of the producers in Burgundy can …
There’s this saying that’s called the “modern winemaking style”. By this people simply mean that the wine is produced so that it can be drunk young. So you walk into a shop, buy it off the shelf, take it home, and tuck straight in. That’s how a lot of wineries are doing it these days, …
