Burgundy – Exact Wines

Not only did we recently cover Taste Washington, but we also attended a Burgundy tasting today of nearly 150 wines brought in by their trade association. It’s not quite like reviewing wines at En Primeur (going on now in Bordeaux for the 2013’s), but it’s a lot, even for us. Tomorrow night, we also have what should be a very interesting Chardonnay tasting hosted by a very good friend.

We’re new to all of this reviewing, writing and posting – in the midst of our day jobs and family commitments – but we are loving every minute of it. We look forward to bringing you updates and insights – and we most definitely appreciate your patience while we pull it all together. It”s a tough life!

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From time to time we’ll review low cost wines in search of the ultimate value bottles. Here are reviews of a few recent wines:

The 2011 Les Hospices Sancerre white wine from Sancerre, France was purchased from Costco for $14. It was a very nice floral white wine, aged in stainless and with crisp acidity for summer drinking. It went perfectly with our lemon chicken pasta that had capers, pine nuts and olive oil (88pts.)

I purchased another $15 bottle of summer white from Costco, the 2010 Olivier Leflaive Bourgogne Blanc – Les Setilles. This wine was 100% Chardonnay from the Burgundy region of France. Even though this wine was a low end village wine, Olivier Leflaive is one of the best producers of white Burgundy and it showed in this $15 bottle of wine. This wine had nice clean Chardonnay fruit, with good body and a hint of spices and acid coming through on the medium finish (89pts.).