Delightful and Affordable Bourgogne!

12 June 2015: On the final morning of our seminar, we did a blind tasting of 40 wines, including 20 reds and 20 whites selected from the Cave de Prestige of BIVB. All we had to do was to guess the appellation, the level of quality, and vintage. Well, there are 100 appellations in Bourgogne.....to start with...


Blind tastings are humbling exercises and invariably turn out these nice surprises when the wine delivers above its class (or vice versa!). The following are some of the wines that I was rather impressed by:


Whites
2013 Bourgogne Hautes Coôtes de Nuits, Les Dames Huguette, Domaine Guy et Yvan Dufouleur

2013 Saint Romain, Domaine Christophe Buisson

2013 Givry 1er Cru Champs Lalot, Domaine Michel Sarrazin et Fils

2013 Beaune Champagne de Savigny, Domaine Roux Père et Fils

2013 Bouzeron Clos de La Fortune, Maison Chanzy

2013 Bourgogne-Chitry Olympe, Domaine Olivier Morin

2014 Bourgogne Couvent des Jacobins, Maison Louis Jadot

2014 Bourgogne-Aligoté, Domaine Olivier Fichet



Reds

2013 Beaune Cuvée Jean Marc Ferreri, Domaine Capuano Ferreri

2013 Marsannay Les Longeroies, Domaine Jean Fournier

2013 Santenay 1er Cru Clos Rousseau, Domaine Bachey-Legros

2012 Fixin, Domaine René Bouvier

2013 Bourgogne Côtes d’Auxerre Cuvée Louis Bersan, Domaine JL et JC Bersan

2012 Bourgogne-Chitry Vau du Puits, Domaine Olivier Morin

(And I highly recommend the 2012 Marsannay En Ouzeloy, Rene Bouvier that I tasted subsequently at a restaurant in Paris after leaving Bourgogne)

 

I would love to see these wines appearing on wine lists in restaurants or wine bars, as they offer genuine price-quality ratio (provided there is no ludicrous mark-up in the distribution chain)! In Hong Kong, I feel that we have a genuine need to change consumers' perception that Bourgogne wines are expensive......a lament or complaint I often encounter. Not at all, these are very palate-worthy wines and affordable too!