Needing some help with Burgs
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 11:01 pm
Well, my tasting group is doing a Burgundian theme next month. There'll be a slide show from one of the guys who worked with Mugnier over last year's harvest, lots of Burgundy-oriented food, and of course, we all need to bring bottles of good wine. Problem for me is that all I know about Burgundy is that it's pretty easy to spend a lot of money on a bottle of wine that doesn't taste good. That kind of price of admission has kept me away from the stuff for many years. So I'm wondering if some of you who know more about this stuff can recommend some bottles. As far as cost goes, I'm not going to be able to pop for any DRC, but a bottle of Gallo Hearty Burgundy won't make it with this group. (One of the members personally provided 16 bottles of various Chambolle-Musigny's for our tasting yesterday, so I want to bring a couple of pretty nice bottles for this.)
So what do y'all say? What's out there these days that comes in for under $100/bottle or so but which provides some real pleasure and as far as possible, a real sense of place? White and red suggestions will be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Mike
So what do y'all say? What's out there these days that comes in for under $100/bottle or so but which provides some real pleasure and as far as possible, a real sense of place? White and red suggestions will be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Mike