Excellent vid. One additional point is that while there are only 33 grand cru vineyards, there are several 1er cru vineyards that make grand cru quality wine (and charge grand cru prices). Clos St. Jacques in Gevry-Chambertin is a prominent example. Also, price varies wildly by producer. A Leroy Bourgogne is more expensive than most grand cru chablis, for example.
Goonie: thank you for your continued support and comments. I appreciate your additional comments and hope viewers read these valuable comments from other viewers as this adds to my video without complicating it. I didn't want to talk too much about exceptions and as I said to another viewer, I deleted a whole section about producers because I thought it would confuse people so I will save that for a later video. This is just to get people started with the basics about Burgundy and then build from there. Speaking about Leroy, look out for my video review of the Leroy 2005 Pommard 1er Cru coming up in a few weeks! Cheers!
Great video! Just wanted to mention some white wine exceptions to the "White Burgundy is made from Chardonnay" rule. The most significant exception is Aligote, which is grown around Burgundy, and is the specialty of the village Bouzeron. There are also small amounts of Pinot Blanc and Pinot Gris. Saint Bris is an area in the north of Burgundy that produces wine from Sauvignon Blanc and Sauvignon Gris also. Keep up the great work!
Noahcap: thank you for viewing my video and your comment. Couldn't think of any off the top of my head. I knew about Aligote but didn't know about Saint Bris. Again, I wanted to stick away from too many exceptions as it will confuse people. In fact, I deleted a whole chunk of the video talking about the importance of producers in Burgundy because I thought it would be confusing. I just want to keep things compact and basic and then build from there since Burgundy is truly a very difficult region to understand. Please like, subscribe and keep watching! Cheers!
Thankyou for this video been looking to match my drc experience with other burgundy wine. I got alot of recommendation about domaine faivaley , burgundy name are alot more harder. Appreciate the video next video do a barolo and babaresco wine explantion for now.
Dorm mma: thank you for viewing my video and your comment. Wow...DRC...not much that can match that experience! I think many others wine UA-camrs have info on Barolo and Barbaresco so I am trying to focus on Bordeaux and Burgundy. I don't feel I have enough knowledge of Barolo and Barbaresco to make a good video at this point but maybe in the future! Please like, subscribe and keep watching! Cheers!
Ruby: thank you for viewing my video and your kind comment. I am glad my videos are helpful. But there is no substitute for tasting experience and forming your own opinions after some preliminary basic knowledge. Please like, subscribe and keep watching. Cheers!
This was really helpful, thanks. One thing I still get stuck on is trying to tell the difference between what is the name of the region vs name of the producer/winery, since I don't have either memorized. If it says chateau I can tell but sometimes it's just a French sounding set of words lol
Keith: I know what you mean. Sometimes it is better to work backwards...try to figure out the region (as you may have heard of it before) and then by deduction, the other word must be the winery. Typically, the region is almost always going to be the biggest font. The winery might be in small font. The word right above/near Grand Cru or 1er Cru will be the region. If no Grand Cru/1er Cru on the label, it is probably a village wine. Cheers!
Dorm mma: depends on your budget. See my review of Bichot Echezeaux. If you can find it, pretty nice price. I also like Louis Latour Corton Grancey, which is easier to find. Cheers!
Matthias: thank you for viewing my video and your comment. Hope you enjoyed this video. Probably next video will be on different regions of Burgundy. Please like, subscribe and keep watching! Cheers!
Robin: wow...my viewers have really sharp eyes and notice everything! I know absolutely nothing about scotch/whisky but I have really nice friends/clients who give me great gifts. I think sometimes they prefer to give me scotch since they want to give me something I haven't tried. See my video on "what does $20,000 worth of scotch look like" to see what one of my friends served me. Cheers!
Do not know how it is in the region where you live, but in Europe (I will speak at least for France and Switzerland) you can find some reasonably priced premiers crus and grands crus, very far from the DRC prices, but agree thats a difficult wine region to understand
Rosso: in BC we don't have a great selection so we don't get the top producers but even for not famous producers you are paying $100+ for 1er Cru (other than Chablis). Cheers!
Dorm mma: thank you for viewing my video. I haven't had a lot of Faiveley wines but with Burgundy prices skyrocketing and I am now looking to bigger negociants for the Grand Crus just so that i can taste them. Cheers!
Excellent vid. One additional point is that while there are only 33 grand cru vineyards, there are several 1er cru vineyards that make grand cru quality wine (and charge grand cru prices). Clos St. Jacques in Gevry-Chambertin is a prominent example. Also, price varies wildly by producer. A Leroy Bourgogne is more expensive than most grand cru chablis, for example.
Goonie: thank you for your continued support and comments. I appreciate your additional comments and hope viewers read these valuable comments from other viewers as this adds to my video without complicating it. I didn't want to talk too much about exceptions and as I said to another viewer, I deleted a whole section about producers because I thought it would confuse people so I will save that for a later video. This is just to get people started with the basics about Burgundy and then build from there.
Speaking about Leroy, look out for my video review of the Leroy 2005 Pommard 1er Cru coming up in a few weeks! Cheers!
Great video! Just wanted to mention some white wine exceptions to the "White Burgundy is made from Chardonnay" rule. The most significant exception is Aligote, which is grown around Burgundy, and is the specialty of the village Bouzeron. There are also small amounts of Pinot Blanc and Pinot Gris. Saint Bris is an area in the north of Burgundy that produces wine from Sauvignon Blanc and Sauvignon Gris also. Keep up the great work!
Noahcap: thank you for viewing my video and your comment. Couldn't think of any off the top of my head. I knew about Aligote but didn't know about Saint Bris. Again, I wanted to stick away from too many exceptions as it will confuse people. In fact, I deleted a whole chunk of the video talking about the importance of producers in Burgundy because I thought it would be confusing. I just want to keep things compact and basic and then build from there since Burgundy is truly a very difficult region to understand. Please like, subscribe and keep watching! Cheers!
Great video!! Probably one of the best descriptions of Burgundy lables I've seen. You should do a few more Burgundy episodes...😀
Dana: thank you for the kind words. Depending on how this is received, I do plan to do more videos in this series.
Perfect. Excellent proposal for our learning process.
Yes, thanks
Thankyou for this video been looking to match my drc experience with other burgundy wine. I got alot of recommendation about domaine faivaley , burgundy name are alot more harder. Appreciate the video next video do a barolo and babaresco wine explantion for now.
Dorm mma: thank you for viewing my video and your comment. Wow...DRC...not much that can match that experience! I think many others wine UA-camrs have info on Barolo and Barbaresco so I am trying to focus on Bordeaux and Burgundy. I don't feel I have enough knowledge of Barolo and Barbaresco to make a good video at this point but maybe in the future! Please like, subscribe and keep watching! Cheers!
Extremely helpful! - from a newbie to a fine dining restaurant needing help studying wines.
Ruby: thank you for viewing my video and your kind comment. I am glad my videos are helpful. But there is no substitute for tasting experience and forming your own opinions after some preliminary basic knowledge. Please like, subscribe and keep watching. Cheers!
Great video as always!! Series on 4th & 5th growth in the near future?
Steven: yup..hoping to film the 4th growth videos this weekend...got to string my viewers along a bit! Cheers!
Great explanation. Just getting into burgundy and really appreciate the video.
Patrick: thank you for watching my video and your kind comment. Please view the rest of the videos in my Burgundy Wine Basics series in my playlist
This was really helpful, thanks. One thing I still get stuck on is trying to tell the difference between what is the name of the region vs name of the producer/winery, since I don't have either memorized. If it says chateau I can tell but sometimes it's just a French sounding set of words lol
Keith: I know what you mean. Sometimes it is better to work backwards...try to figure out the region (as you may have heard of it before) and then by deduction, the other word must be the winery. Typically, the region is almost always going to be the biggest font. The winery might be in small font. The word right above/near Grand Cru or 1er Cru will be the region. If no Grand Cru/1er Cru on the label, it is probably a village wine. Cheers!
Excellent primer. Thank you!
myplayax: glad you enjoyed it and hope it was helpful. Please like, subscribe and keep watching! Cheers!
Any recommendations for grand cru burgundy
Dorm mma: depends on your budget. See my review of Bichot Echezeaux. If you can find it, pretty nice price. I also like Louis Latour Corton Grancey, which is easier to find. Cheers!
Looking for the next Video, perhaps Meursault?
Matthias: thank you for viewing my video and your comment. Hope you enjoyed this video. Probably next video will be on different regions of Burgundy. Please like, subscribe and keep watching! Cheers!
Already liked and subscribed since a few weeks:-)
Nicely done!
Thank you! Cheers!
Do you also like Whisky? I see a nice bottle of Macallan!
Robin: wow...my viewers have really sharp eyes and notice everything! I know absolutely nothing about scotch/whisky but I have really nice friends/clients who give me great gifts. I think sometimes they prefer to give me scotch since they want to give me something I haven't tried. See my video on "what does $20,000 worth of scotch look like" to see what one of my friends served me. Cheers!
Do not know how it is in the region where you live, but in Europe (I will speak at least for France and Switzerland) you can find some reasonably priced premiers crus and grands crus, very far from the DRC prices, but agree thats a difficult wine region to understand
Rosso: in BC we don't have a great selection so we don't get the top producers but even for not famous producers you are paying $100+ for 1er Cru (other than Chablis). Cheers!
What do you think about domain faiveley grand cru
Dorm mma: thank you for viewing my video. I haven't had a lot of Faiveley wines but with Burgundy prices skyrocketing and I am now looking to bigger negociants for the Grand Crus just so that i can taste them. Cheers!
Gamer wine.
Deneuve: sorry but not familiar with this term...what does this mean? Cheers!