Burgundy

Patrick Matthews is the author of the award-winning titles The Wild Bunch; and Real Wine. He also updates Michell Beazley's Wine Guide Wines of Burgundy. He contributes regularly to Wine International, Decanter, and Harpers in the UK and Saveur and Food and Wine in the USA. Patrick lives in London and has a house in Burgundy which he visits regularly.

6 Introduction; 8 Understanding Burgundy; 10 Burgundy's uniqueness; 14 Making sense of the wines and wine law; 18 Good wine and how to find it; 22 Geography - the roads, rivers, railways, and towns; 24 How to get there; 26 How to travel around; 28 Where to stay; 30 How and where to eat; 32 How to make a little French go a long way; 34 How to taste and talk about wine; 36 Good producers and how to recognise them; 38 Visiting producers and winery etiquette; 40 Taking wine home - by car, rail or air; 42 Discovering Burgundy's Wines and Vineyards; 44 Chablis and The Yonne; 52 Dijon and the northern Cote d'Or; 58 Nuits-St-Georges and the Hautes Cotes de Nuits; 66 The big names of the Cote de Nuits - Gevrey-Chambertin, Morey-St-Denis, Chambolle-Musigny, and Vougot; 72 Beaune and the Rhoin; 76 The grand Cotes de Beaune - Meusault and Montrachet; 84 The good-value Cotes de Beaune - Monthelie, Auxey-Duresses, and St-Romain; 94 St-Aubin, Gamay, and the Hautes Cotes de Beaune; 100 The middle Cote Chalonnaise; 106 The Voie Verte; 114 The eastern Maconnais; 120 Pouilly-Fuisse and the southern Maconnais; 128 Beaujolais - the crus, the villages, the terres dorees; 136 Appendix; Useful addresses and contact numbers, including merchants and importers; 140 Index