7 Affordable, High-Quality Wines from Burgundy You Need to Try
A love affair with Burgundy has always tugged fiercely at the heart strings.
29/04/2023 Wine Magazine
Open the file These days, however, it seems to tug ever more fiercely at the wallet too, and wines from Burgundy’s heralded sites in the Côte de Nuits and Côte de Beaune have fallen out of reach for many wine lovers.
But happily, there’s still considerable value to be found in historically underappreciated regions like the Côte Chalonnaise.
Maison Chanzy 2019 En Rosey (Rully); $35. Strikes of tar and smoke lend savory intensity to bristling blackberry and cassis flavors in this wine…
A narrow stretch of land linking the Côte de Beaune to the north and the Mâconnais to the south, the Côte Chalonnaise boasts no grand cru appellations. Historically, it’s known for fresh, fruity wines best enjoyed young. But, as throughout Burgundy, the consistency of wines produced in the Côte Chalonnaise have improved dramatically in recent decades.
