Join us for a rare opportunity to experience the diverse and celebrated regions of Burgundy, showcasing 15 Burgundies:
9 White & 6 Red, from Village, Premier Cru, and Grand Cru vineyards. This handpicked selection highlights the unique characteristics that make these sub-regions (Villages) some of the most revered in the world of wine.
The Featured Burgundian Villages:
3 x Pernand-Vergelesses
Nestled at the foot of Corton Hill, this charming village produces both red and white wines that exhibit elegance, finesse, and freshness. Known for its crisp whites, Pernand-Vergelesses is a hidden gem for lovers of balanced, mineral-driven wines.
3 x Meursault (Including 2 Premier Crus)
One of Burgundy’s most renowned white wine regions, Meursault is famous for producing rich, full-bodied Chardonnays with a harmonious balance of creamy texture and vibrant acidity. The wines from this region are revered for their complexity and aging potential.
2 x Corton-Charlemagne (Grand Cru)
This legendary Grand Cru vineyard produces some of the world’s finest white wines. With a reputation for opulence and power, Corton-Charlemagne’s Chardonnays are rich, intense, and age-worthy, displaying notes of ripe fruits, honey, and a distinctive minerality.
3 x Côtes de Nuits Villages
Known for its superb red wines, the Côtes de Nuits Villages region produces Pinot Noirs that are structured, elegant, and filled with dark fruit flavors. This subregion includes some of Burgundy’s most famous villages, offering wines with complexity and depth.
3 x Gevrey-Chambertin
Synonymous with powerful, long-lived Pinot Noirs, Gevrey-Chambertin is one of Burgundy’s most prestigious villages. Its wines are known for their rich flavors of dark cherry, earth, and spice, along with their remarkable aging potential.
The Cross Selection of Producers…
Marchand & Burch | Domaine des Beaumont | Aurelien Verdet | Pernot Belicard | Humbert Frères | Joseph Drouhin | Michel Voarik | Dubreuil-Fontaine | Xavier Durnad | Humbert Fréres
Hosted by John Jens | Sunday September 22nd
Lunch: 12-3pm, 15 Wines & 5 Courses, $155
Masterclass: 4-6pm, 15 Wines with nibbles, $75
Dinner: 6.30pm, 15 Wines & 5 Courses, $155
The Wine List (Menu TBC)
1st Course
Dubreuil Fontaine Pernand-Vergelesses 2022, Our Price $79
Made from four plots, of which Sous les Clous is the largest. Still pale and on the lean side, conference pear perhaps, but with a perfume as well, stopping short of honeysuckle. Some citrus behind and good length.
89 Points Jasper Morris, insideburgundy.com (February 2024)
Michel Voarick Pernand Vergelesses 2022, Our Price $99
Its light robe will become golden with some age. The aromas of white flowers –hawthorn and acacia- develop into honey and spices with a little bit of age. It is a wine that can be drunk young to enjoy its flavours of citrus fruit with a pinch of mint.
To enjoy now and in the next 7 years.
domaine-micheal-voarik.com
Dubreuil Fontaine ‘Clos Berthet’ Pernand-Vergelesses Premier Cru 2021,
Our Price $125
Mid lemon yellow. The bouquet is a little tighter and tenser while the palate stretches out further than Sous Frétille. A more complete wine in all departments this year, light fresh apples and a useful salinity. Much more persistent this year.
91 Points Jasper Morris, insideburgundy.com (December 2023)
2nd Course
Marchand & Burch Meursault 2008, Our Price $143
Light straw-green; a very attractive bouquet and palate; the wine has a crisp, racy edge to its citrus and stone fruit flavours, oak perfectly integrated on the long palate. Tasted among top-end Australian chardonnays, did not stand out as distinctly different, contrary to the pinot comparison.
95 Points James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion (March 2022)
Joseph Drouhin Meursault ‘Charmes’ 1er cru 2020, Our Price $250
Beautiful nose of Amalfi lemon, candied lemon, vanilla and white flowers. Stunning combination of richness and vitality, the wine feeling light on the palate, in spite of the excellent concentration. Very long, mineral finish that displays wonderful silkiness. Drink or hold.
95 Points James Suckling, jamessuckling.com (July 2022)
Slightly more prominent wood influence can be found on the slightly bright and more citrusy aromas of white orchard fruit, roasted nut and an array of floral wisps. Once again, the medium weight flavors are very generously proportion yet retain solid delineation thanks to the firm lemon-tinged acidity that maintains the balance on the solidly complex and highly persistent finale. Lovely.
Pernot Belicard Meursault ‘Les Perrières Dessous’ 1er cru 2017,
Our Price $255
Pernot's finest wine is the 2017 Meursault 1er Cru Perrières, a beautiful cuvée in the making that wafts from the glass with aromas of crisp yellow orchard fruit, hazelnut cream and lemon oil. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, satiny textured and incisive, with tangy acids and a deep, broad shouldered mid-palate that's impressively powerful but reserved, concluding with a long finish.
93+ William Kelley, The Wine Advocate (February 2019)
3rd Course
Michel Voarick Aloxe-Corton 2022, Our Price $146
Dubreuil Fontaine Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru 2021, Our Price $275
Pale to mid lemon. The bouquet is restrained yet fine. This is very graceful, with a seamless silky texture. A discreet and elegant example, medium bodied, quite persistent, a little well-judged oak, and a few stones bringing up the finish.
93 Points Jasper Morris, insideburgundy.com (December 2023)
Michel Voarik Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru 2022, Our Price $345
In its youth this superb grand cru white shows a light golden color, as it ages its robe becomes more amber.Aromas of linden flower, apple and fresh almond turn cooked apple and grilled toast as the wine will age. Flavors of exotic fruits, pineapple, mango and lychees transform themselves with time into buttered notes and truffles. It has long, very long staying power on the palate. Enjoy it with fish, lobster, and scallops, white meat or just by itself with some hard cheeses and almonds. If you like a wine with a big structure you can drink it in the next 3 to 5 years. If you prefer more complexity and refinement wait a good 10 years before opening your bottle.
domaine-micheal-voarik.com
4th Course
Xavier Durand Côte de Nuits – Villages 2018, Our Price $65
Jean-Baptiste Jessiaume Hautes Côte de Nuits – Villages 2018, Our Price $66
Aurelien Verdet Côtes de Nuits Villages 'La Prètiére' 2020, Our Price $79
Verdet is my reference point for the appellation, and his 2020 Bourgogne Hautes-Côtes de Nuits Le Prieuré has turned out very well. It's a touch richer and deeper pitched than usual in this vintage, offering up aromas of plums and blackberries mingled with subtle hints of spices and potpourri and revealing a medium to full-bodied, broad and textural palate framed by beautifully refined tannins and lively acids. Give this elegant, seamless red Burgundy a few years in bottle this year. Even if it's sufficiently polished to be approachable on release, there's a lot of substance here waiting to unwind.
90 Points William Kelley, The Wine Advocate (August 2022)
5th Course
Beaumont Gevrey-Chambertin Vieilles Vignes 2020, Our Price $189
The fiber of Gevrey-Chambertin, with a more expressive and deeper material and fruit, is unmistakably closer to a premier cru. Average age of the vines: over 60 years.
domaine-des-Beaumont.com
Aurelian Verdet Gevrey Chambertin 2018 Our Price $149
Humbert Gevrey-Chambertin ‘Vieilles Vignes’ 2019, Our Price $139
The Les Marchais lieu-dit at the bottom of the Combe de Lavaux supplies half of the fruit for this excellent Gevrey village, with the rest coming from 14 other parcels. Ambitiously concentrated, with 70% new oak, serious tannins, ample concentration and crunchy acidity, this is a wine with more gas in the tank, as it were.
93 Points Tim Atkin MW, Decanter