THE ESSENTIALS: YOUR BURGUNDY WINE JOURNEY 

Unlock Burgundy wine secrets

From Monday to Friday, at 11am, enjoy a wine tasting class lasting 1 ½ hours.
“The Essentials” offers you an excellent introduction to Burgundy wines. This wine tasting class will enable you to make the most of the vinous discoveries that will certainly mark your stay in Burgundy and to put into practice your tasting techniques.

Master wine tasting techniques

Around one of our two tasting tables, we will look at « the essentials » of the oenological and viticultural knowledge necessary for an understanding of Burgundy and its prestigious wines: the geography of the vineyards, the hierarchy of the appellations, geology and soil, grape varieties… We will reply to your questions: why are the wines different even though they are made from neighbouring parcels of land? Why do we find the 1er and grand cru wines in the middle of the slopes? Etc…

Blind taste 8 exceptional Burgundy wines

Next, it’s time to taste. We begin with an initiation in the techniques of tasting, then a blind tasting of 8 wines, 2 of them are "grand cru" and all chosen from the four levels of appellations in Burgundy (whites and reds). To give you a wide overview of the wine region, we have selected wines from estates in the different Burgundian wine growing areas, from Chablis to Mâcon, including Côte de Nuits, Côte de Beaune and Côte Chalonnaise.

Detailed program: 

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KNOWLEDGES
Review of the essentials of Burgundy: the wines from Burgundy & the grapes, the geography, the AOC system, how to read a label…

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INTRODUCTION TO WINE TASTING
The techniques of tasting: visual, olfactory and gustative examination

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TASTING
Blind tasting of 8 wines (no influence of the label). The wines are from different areas in Burgundy with a selection of “regional”, “village”, “premier cru” and “grand cru” appellations, for both white and red wines.

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Wines for tasting : examples

White wines 

Bourgogne Hautes Côtes de Beaune 2015 - Meursault les Clous 2019 - Santenay 1er cru Beauregard 2022 - Chablis Grand Cru Vaudésir 2020

Red wines 

Bourgogne Pinot Noir 2022 - Nuits-Saint-Georges 2019 - Mercurey 1er cru les Veleys 2020 - Corton Grand Cru 2018