Burgundy
Burgundy
Bouchard Père & Fils 2022 Bourgogne Aligoté
French White
Lemon, green apple and white flowers define the aromatic profile. The palate is straightforward and airy, with lively acidity and a fresh finish. Aligoté receives gentle pressing and gravity handling; fermentation takes place in temperature-controlled tanks. The fruit comes from plots farmed under strict environmental standards, with herbicides excluded and biodiversity supported through hedgerows and grassy strips. The finished wine contains thirteen percent alcohol.
Domaine Séguinot-Bordet 2022 Chablis
French White
Pale gold with green reflections, the wine carries ripe peach, apricot, verbena, woodland and pine-cone notes. Lemon, fennel, white flowers and minerality are also present. The palate is pure, direct and crystalline, with citrus freshness and biscuit detail. Made entirely from Chardonnay, it matures on its lees in stainless-steel tanks, and the wine is dry.
Domaine François Chapuis 2023 Les Confréries Bourgogne Pinot Noir
French Red
Black cherry, supple red fruit, savoury herbs, mineral notes, iodine and fine spice are present. The palate is light, fruity and supple, with pleasant fine tannins and a slight green note. The young vines grow at Les Cras on the slopes of Mancey. Maceration lasts ten to fifteen days, depending on the vintage. About one quarter of the wine is matured in barrels.
Domaine Gérard Persenot 2023 Bourgogne Côtes d’Auxerre Pinot Noir
French Red
This still red is made from Pinot Noir in Bourgogne Côtes d'Auxerre. Gérard Persenot is among the growers working in the roughly fifty-hectare Vaux vineyard above the Yonne valley. Vaux was replanted in the 1970s. Its south-southeast-facing slopes carry Kimmeridgian soils, while Portlandian soils occur on the plateau. The domaine is based in Saint-Bris-le-Vineux, France.
Domaine Georges Glantenay 2022 Bourgogne Pinot Noir Maison Dieu
French Red
Raspberry, cherry and earth appear in an airy aromatic profile. The palate is energetic and delineated, with a silky, supple texture, pure red fruit and concentration. Pinot Noir is fully destemmed. The fruit comes from Pommard and Volnay parcels; the Volnay portion accounts for roughly seventy percent. The harvest was about half a normal crop, and the finish is lightly austere.
Domaine Borgeot 2022 Bouzeron Les Tournelles
French White
Pale yellow colour accompanies white fruit, floral notes and subtle minerality. The palate is fresh and lively, with balanced acidity and a persistent finish. Aligoté comes from the Les Tournelles site within Bouzeron. The vineyard covers about one and a half hectares in the northeastern part of the appellation, where the domaine produces roughly five thousand bottles in a typical year.
Domaine Jérôme Chezeaux 2020 Bourgogne Côte d’Or Pinot Noir
French Red
Fresh, lively fruit is supported by firm minerality and dusty spice in a sleek profile without new-oak influence. The Pinot Noir comes from parcels spread across Premeaux-Prissey, Nuits-Saint-Georges and Vosne-Romanée. Rich colour and a structured profile accompany elegance and typicity when young. It is a regional expression from the Côte de Nuits and the surroundings of Nuits-Saint-Georges.
Clos des Vignes du Maynes Julien Guillot 2019 Mâcon-Villages Blanc
French White
Chardonnay comes from vineyards in Chardonnay, Montbellet and Viré-Clessé, where weathered loam lies over limestone. Grapes are hand harvested and selected, then slowly pressed and settled for six to eighteen hours. Fermentation begins with indigenous yeasts in tank without sulphur. The wine spends twelve months on the lees, receives small sulphur additions during racking and after filtration, and is bottled after light filtration.
Domaine Chevrot 2019 Bourgogne Hautes-Côtes de Beaune Blanc
French White
Pear, apple and lemon appear with white flower, almond, fennel and stony mineral notes. The palate is fresh and medium-bodied, with citrus, orchard fruit, acidity and a saline finish. Chardonnay comes from four vineyards on sand, clay and gravel. The grapes are hand harvested, gently pressed, naturally fermented, aged mostly in older oak, then matured further in steel.
Domaine Chevrot 2016 Maranges Sur le Chêne
French Red
Redcurrant, cherry, cassis and wild strawberry sit beside a faint spicy note. The palate is big and round, with mouth-filling fresh red fruit; minerality and tannins are also present. The Pinot Noir comes from hand-harvested vines. Maturation includes twelve months in barrels and three months in wooden vats. Suggested pairings include duck, pork, game, mushrooms and medium-aged cheeses.
Cyprien Arlaud 2023 Scritch Bourgogne Aligoté
French White
White fruit, pear and fresh vegetal notes meet delicate oak and mineral character. The palate is round and full, with freshness, mineral tension and a long, spicy, saline finish. Aligoté comes from 45-year-old vines on calcareous soils and is harvested by hand. Whole clusters are pressed slowly, fermentation occurs spontaneously in stainless steel, and the wine remains in steel for maturation.
Mark Haisma 2023 A Bogan in Bogandy Coteaux Bourguignons
French Red
Bright red and black fruit meet a subtle spice accent. The palate is light, forward and juicy, with freshness and balanced acidity. Pinot Noir accounts for sixty percent of the blend and Gamay forty percent. Fermentation takes ten days in stainless steel with indigenous yeasts. Maturation includes twelve months in 228-litre French oak, ten percent new, and five to six months in stainless steel.
Jean-Claude Ramonet 2019 Bourgogne Aligoté
French White
Pale straw in colour, this Aligoté offers spicy aromas with lime, vanilla and white fruit. Apple and lemon accompany pure fruit on a bone-dry palate, with focused minerality, a fleshy middle and bright acidity. Saline notes are also present. The structure is sharp and lively, with substance and balance, and the wine contains twelve and a half percent alcohol.
Domaine Seguin-Manuel 2021 Viré-Clessé
French White
Gold in colour, the Chardonnay combines fruit, mineral and floral notes. The palate is straightforward and concentrated, with ripe fruit and a delicate, lively mineral finish. Old vines grow on east-facing limestone-and-clay slopes in Viré. Fermentation takes place in stainless steel, followed by nine months of maturation in French oak casks. Viré lies north of Mâcon and fifty miles south of Beaune.
Jean-Claude Ramonet 2023 Bourgogne Aligoté
French White
Lemon thistle, river stone and crunchy pear appear over a layer of downy lees. A reductive thread runs through the profile. The finish brings wild meadow grass and ample flake salt. Aligoté comes from vines planted in nineteen fifty-six and nineteen sixty-three. The wine is intense yet restrained, with twelve and a half percent alcohol. Its slender frame combines lightness with complexity.
Jean-Claude Ramonet 2019 Bouzeron Aligoté
French White
Fresh and bright Aligoté aromas and spice accompany rich, dense and sweet flavours. The palate is mouthwatering, with a hint of vanilla, a silky texture and a light-bodied frame. Natural acidity balances the density and weight of the warm growing season. Stony and saline notes recall a clean oyster shell, and subtle spice appears on the tightly woven finish.
Maison en Belles Lies 2019 L’Étrange Vin de France
French Red
Morello cherry, marzipan, black pepper, tamarind and allspice are present. Dark fruit and developed aromatics accompany precise acidity and soft tannins. Gamay à petits grains accounts for sixty percent of the blend, Pinot Noir twenty-five percent and Muscat Chardonnay fifteen percent. Grapes are farmed biodynamically, and the red wine is bottled without fining, filtration or added sulphur.
Maison en Belles Lies 2021 Bourgogne Aligoté
French White
Aligoté from Saint-Aubin grows on white limestone soils. Whole clusters are pressed directly and cold-settled for three days. Spontaneous fermentation takes place in temperature-controlled stainless steel, followed by fifteen months of maturation, thirty percent in tank and seventy percent in 350-litre barrels. The white wine is unfined and unfiltered, with minimal sulphur added before bottling.
Domaine Rebourgeon-Mure 2022 Bourgogne Rouge Maison Dieu
French Red
Vibrant ruby in colour, the Pinot Noir combines cherry and blackberry with red-fruit flavour and an earthy undertone. Fine tannins accompany a medium-bodied palate with balanced structure and acidity. The finish lingers. Alcohol is twelve and a half percent. The vines are managed under lutte raisonnée, and the red wine comes from Burgundy in France.
Julien Guillot 2018 Mégamix Vin de France
French Red
Red fruit appears with floral and herbal notes. The palate is young, fresh and light, with good acidity and a persistent finish. The grapes come from vines between twenty-five and eighty years old and are harvested by hand. A short carbonic maceration is followed by eighteen months in a conical wooden vat. The vineyard is farmed biodynamically, and the wine is classified as natural.
Domaine Gérard Persenot 2023 Irancy
French Red
Pinot Noir forms this dry red from Irancy. The profile is fruit-led, with light spice, freshness and tannic structure. Limestone and clay characterize the terroir, and the colour is bright ruby. The wine is youthful. Serve it at about sixteen degrees; brief decanting can help the aromas open. It suits poultry, beef, veal and mushroom dishes.
Domaine Nicolas Rossignol 2017 Bourgogne Pinot Noir
French Red
Pinot Noir grows on poor, well-draining soils. The wine has medium-intensity cherry-red colour. Red fruit, sweet spice and undergrowth accompany silky tannins and lively acidity. The finish has a mineral character. The profile is structured and fruit-focused, and the texture is smooth. The vineyard is managed under a reasoned approach. Maturation uses sixty percent wood and forty percent tank.
Domaine Sébastien Giroux 2021 Pouilly-Fuissé Les Raidillons
French White
Chardonnay grows in clay soils with little limestone at three hundred metres. The vines face east and average forty-five years of age. Grapes are harvested by hand and pressed slowly. Fermentation uses indigenous yeasts at low temperature. Half the wine matures in tank and half in four-hundred-litre barrels on fine lees for eleven months. The wine is lightly filtered before bottling.
Domaine Roland Lavantureux 2020 Bourgogne Épineuil Les Fauconniers
French Red
Pinot Noir comes from vines planted between nineteen sixty-nine and nineteen seventy-eight on clay and limestone. The fruit is completely destemmed and ferments as whole berries in stainless steel. Maturation lasts one year, with seventy-five percent in barrels and twenty-five percent in stainless steel. Crunchy red fruit appears with floral notes, peppery spice and a mineral backbone. Sulphur is added only at bottling.
Domaine Rebourgeon-Mure 2019 Volnay
French Red
Pinot Noir comes from two parcels, Les Pluchots and Les Lurets, at 245 metres on clay-limestone soil with south and southeast exposure. The wine has pulpy fruit, volume and a silky texture. Grapes are harvested by hand and fully destemmed. Maturation lasts fourteen to eighteen months, partly in new oak. The domaine works its soils mechanically without herbicide, and the village parcel blend draws on plantings established across several decades.
Maison En Belles Lies 2022 Hautes-Côtes de Beaune Rouge
French Red
Pinot Noir grows on clay-limestone soils in the Hautes-Côtes de Beaune. Harvesting is manual, with selection into small twenty-kilogram boxes and a yield of about forty-five hectolitres per hectare. Whole clusters undergo fermentation in wooden vats for twenty-four to twenty-eight days. The wine then spends fifteen months in used 228-litre barrels without added sulphur before being bottled without fining or filtration. Alcohol is eleven and a half percent.
Remoissenet 2015 Cotes de Nuits-Villages
French Red
Cherry, raspberry and mint form the aromatic profile. The palate is suave and fine-grained, with black cherry, dark raspberry and spice. Pinot Noir gives red and black berry flavours, fine tannins and a smooth finish. This red Burgundy comes from the Cotes de Nuits-Villages appellation. The flavours are bright and lifted, and alcohol is thirteen and a half percent.
Domaine Rebourgeon-Mure 2018 Beaune Premier Cru Les Vignes Franches
French Red
Fleshy raspberry and redcurrant appear with violet. The palate adds cherry, redcurrant, blueberry, plum, lily, cornflower, mineral notes, liquorice and mild tobacco. Tannins are fine, and the finish is long. Pinot Noir grows on clay-limestone soil at 240 to 260 metres, with south to south-east exposure. The vineyard lies on a gentle, stony slope facing the rising sun. Its name recalls tax exemptions granted to winegrowers who restored the slope after war and plague.
Domaine de Montmain 2023 Les Lapinières Bourgogne Hautes-Côtes de Nuits Blanc
French White
The colour is luminous, with an aromatic tropical-fruit profile. The attack is direct, and the palate is generous, fruit-driven and fresh. Chardonnay grows on calcareous marl. Grapes are hand harvested at low yields and rigorously sorted before maturation for twelve months in traditional Burgundian barrels, thirty percent of them new. The vineyard was in conversion to organic farming.
Domaine de Montmain 2018 Les Genévrières Bourgogne Hautes-Côtes de Nuits Rouge
French Red
Deep red colour has violet reflections. Red fruit, underbrush and spice form a deep profile. The palate is powerful, with marked tannins and a persistent, spicy finish. Pinot Noir grows in a one-hectare monopole, and the wine is matured in oak barrels. Marked acidity, balance and aromatic persistence accompany its capacity for ageing. Alcohol is thirteen percent.