When was the last time you opened a bottle that made you sit down and contemplate? Sometimes we forget just how good the classics are. Burgundy has gone through tough times of late with the mildew issues of 2024, periods of drought in 2023, frost in 2021, alongside inconsistent weather patterns wreaking havoc on the fragile progress of Pinot Noir.

Journalists and experts have just tasted the 2021 reds and earlier this year, the whites at Burgfest – an exclusive snapshot of wines 4 years after their production. Many of our producers were represented here and faired well in the mix. In the words of Jasper Morris MW ‘2021 was a wretchedly difficult growing season’. Four years on and he found the reds to be:

‘less fragile than I feared, and some producers, even some communes managed to produced a number of delicious wines which I would very much enjoy to drink – medium bodied, elegant, very occasionally ethereal.’

Jasper’s report spotlights Pommard and the increased interest in this commune. The advise: to ‘increase representation’ from here, something we have been working on with Comte Armand but also Domaine Lejeune, new to our listings this year.

Below is a focus on our producer’s 2021s pulled from Jasper’s report. We have limited stocks on a number of these wines.