While grapes have been grown in Burgundy since the Roman epoch, the modern era of winemaking in Burgundy began during the Middle Ages, when two orders of monks, the Cistercians and the Benedictines, ...

With Burgundy, it is a much harder question to answer. Firstly, vignerons come and go: death, divorce, retirement, family generation succession, family disputes and, in some instances, the outright ...

Paysage du vignoble bourguignon en automne. La croix dressée dans le ciel protégé les vignes aux feuilles jaunes dans le village de Saint Aubin en cote d'or. “Burgundy makes me feel like an explorer,” ...

Besides being a buyer of French wines, ALEXIS LICHINE is the owner of a vineyard in Burgundy, He is the author of the recently published book The Wines of France, a comprehensive and highly readable ...

In Unfiltered, Bon Appetit's wine editor Marissa Ross shares her latest favorite bottles and—you guessed it—unfiltered thoughts on natural wine. Burgundy just feels bougie. I always want to say it in ...

Years ago, when I made my first tentative -- and largely unsuccessful -- efforts to understand Burgundy, I did learn one thing. There seemed to be an unbridgeable gulf between the small growers in the ...

WINE COLLECTORS like to proclaim that “all roads lead to Burgundy.” They often wince at the plonk they drank when starting their hobby. In America and Australia, a common entry point is local “fruit ...

The white wines of Burgundy’s Côte de Beaune are considered by many to be the greatest whites in the world. The most famous of these come from the villages of Puligny-Montrachet, Chassagne-­Montrachet ...

EXTREME WEATHER happens so frequently these days that when a vintage is described as “dramatic,” it almost seems commonplace. Happily, in the case of the 2019 Burgundy vintage, the word “dramatic” is ...

From the sandy granite soils of the Les Thorins lieu-dit, this wine shows bright red cherry and raspberry, rose petal, and a subtle mineral edge. The Guérin family farms old vines with a light hand in ...

Today, though, it’s all about Burgundy: so much so, it’s hard to get an allocation of new vintage top wines from the region, whoever you are. It’s always the same message whether you speak to the ...