The Wines of Burgundy

Clive Coates M. W.

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN:
  9780520250505
• eBook ISBN:
  9780520933606
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Arte
• Subtopic: Arte culinaria

Ten years after the publication of the highly acclaimed, award-winning wine guide Côte D'Or: A Celebration of the Great Wines of Burgundy, the "Bible of Burgundy," Clive Coates now offers this thoroughly revised and updated sequel. This long-awaited work details all the major vintages from 2006 back to 1959 and includes thousands of recent tasting notes of the top wines, useful as a reference for wine pairing and a primer in how to taste wine. All-new chapters on Chablis and Côte Chalonnaise replace the previous volume's domain profiles. Coates, a Master of Wine who has spent much of the last thirty years in Burgundy, France, considers it to be the most exciting, complex, and intractable wine region in the world, its vineyards and wineries the most likely to yield fine wines of elegance and finesse. This coffee table book is an indispensable guide for the amateur sommelier and food and wine professionals alike by an internationally renowned wine expert, writing with his habitual expertise, lucidity, and unequaled firsthand knowledge.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part One - The Villages, the Vineyards, the Domaines
• Part Two - The Vintages
• 2007 Vintage Assessment: A Preliminary Report
• Appendix One: Rating the Vintages
• Appendix Two: Rating the Vineyards of the Côte d'Or
• Appendix Three: Rating the Domaines and the Négotiants
• Appendix Four: Côte d'Or: The Size of the Crop
• Appendix Five: Côte d'or Surface Areas: A Summary
• Appendix Six: Price Movements
• Appendix Seven: Measurements and Conversion Tables
• Bibliography
• Index