Best Burgundy Vintages White

A wine specialist s chart.

Best burgundy vintages white.

Plus recommendations for when to drink the wines at their best. That s because in order to be given the grand cru distinction producers must be consistent. It s also at best a snapshot as vintages can evolve in unexpected directions. White burgundy grands crus.

This list includes some of the most prestigious names from the côte d or as well as up and coming producers that our experts have singled out as potentially offering particularly good value. The 2015 white burgundy vintage is more uneven. Find ratings for recent vintages of white burgundy summing up the quality and character of chardonnay from the côte d or chablis and mâconnais. The best white wine terroirs of corton charlemagne and montrachet from producers with means did very well.

Very concentrated wines that should last much longer than most white burgundy vintages. White vintages everything older than. Christie s wine specialist edwin vos shares his personal notes as well as those from the archives. A very difficult year with exceptionally low levels of acid.

Nearly all of the best grand cru burgundy producers make wines of spectacular quality every year. Vintage chart white burgundy as i taste wines and make tasting notes i also update the vintage charts and vintage reports. The vintage reports cover recent vintages as they develop towards maturity. Back to french vintage chart the vintage chart and harvest reports provided by the wine scholar guild gives you the ranking for every french wine region and vintage from 2000 to today.

Number of stars or marks out of 10 etc per vintage could never and will never encapsulate the what ifs of burgundy. Scroll down this page to see some of the best white burgundy wines tasted by our experts across the 2014 2015 and 2016 vintages. Some may be to your taste some not. The best grand cru burgundy vintages.

Acid levels are relatively high and these are not massive wines so are best for classicists who like their white burgundy to be quite angular. Andrew jefford award winning wine journalist for decanter magazine and author of twelve books on wine including th.