Wine School: Burgundy - A Love Story

Wine School: Burgundy - A Love Story Why does Burgundy have such a devoted following? Burgundy has a reputation for being complicated, expensive, and impossible to understand, but we promise it’s worth the love affair. It starts with a fascinating landscape of limestone soils, cool continental climate, rolling hills, and thousands of tiny vineyard parcels that have been carefully mapped and cultivated for centuries. In this class, we’ll break down Burgundy from north to south, talk through its appellations and famous vineyard hierarchy, and explore how Chardonnay and Pinot Noir reflect their individual sites. Burgundy has a reputation for being complicated, expensive, and impossible to understandWe’ll taste four wines (two whites and two reds), to see how dramatically these grapes can express themselves from one village, vineyard, and appellation to the next.