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It’s easier to find affordable Red Burgundies that taste 1) good and 2) like Red Burgundy than is the case with the region’s whites. This challenges the view of Pinot as uniquely difficult and expensive, but nearly all who regularly drink Burgs in both colors will be nodding in assent.
Of the two criteria proposed above far more White Burgundies taste good than taste like White Burgundy (much of the Mâconnais, for instance). Partly this must be that a smaller acreage, the Chassagne-Meursault corridor plus satellites, yields unmissably Burgundian features. Tasty Hautes Côtes Blanc is absolutely a thing, yet ‘good Chardonnay’ more aptly describes most than does obvious regional typicality.
Chavy-Martin’s 2022 Bourgogne Blanc achieves a Burgundy-or-Nowhere appeal matched by very few wines at its price. Those who insist upon newness and surprise along every stop of their wine journey likely find 'reliable' rather timid or lame. But value this good in Burgundy, when you finally find it, leaves us itchier for another bottle than a separate data point. From little parcels in Meursault and Puligny.
Cheers,
Jason
