Burgundy (White Wine)

September 13, 2010

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Some wine lovers enjoy red Burgundy so much they seem to forget that Burgundy also produces several of the world’s finest white wines.

The French government didn’t forget white Burgundy when, in 1962, at enormous expense, it diverted the Paris-Lyon autoroute, then under construction, from the Burgundian village of Puligny and the tiny, 18.5-acre Le Montrachet vineyard, which Puligny shares with the neighboring town of Chassagne. Le Montrachet was – and still is – considered the greatest white wine produced in France. “It should be drunk,” Alexander Dumas said a century earlier, “on one’s knees with hat in hand.” Sadly, the Montrachet vineyard produces fewer than 3,000 cases a year of its intense, golden-green nectar.

Fortunately, though, there is more to white Burgundy than Montrachet. From the inexpensive but appealing wines of Mâcon and Pouilly, produced in the southernmost part of the Burgundy appellation, or region, to the elegant, flinty whites of Chablis in the far north, Burgundy produces a wealth of distinctive white wines, all but a few made from the chardonnay grape.

Source: http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/subjects/w/wines/burgundy_white/index.html

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