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Women and Wine in Burgundy, Revisited

L.M. Archer
Features
4 min read
“You do not notice changes in what is always before you.” - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette I first reported on Burgundy’s Women and Wine organization in 2016 for Palate Press, and this year marks the twentieth anniversary of Femmes et vins de Bourgogne or FEVB. Back in 2000, Burgundy [Bourgogne in French]

Law and Order DOC: No Wine before its Crime

Gary Thomas
Features
10 min read
How would Sherlock Holmes deal with wine crime? After all, the famous detective definitely appreciated fine wine. In the very first Holmes story (“The Sign of the Four”) he drank not only red burgundy from Beaune with lunch, but old Hungarian Tokay and three glasses of port after dinner, and
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Burgundy: Hearts or Minds?

Simon J Woolf
Features
3 min read
My first education in wine came from my mum - a woman who loved fermented juice in a simple, unpretentious way, and who rarely if ever bought a bottle that cost more than $20. Bordeaux wines, she told me, were for the mind - the intellect even. Whereas Burgundy and Pinot

Will We Ever Get Burgundy Back in Our Glasses?

Gary Thomas
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12 min read
We’ve loved and lost – but is there a glimmer of new hope now? I. The Affair and the Breakup I have loved Burgundy wines since I was knee-high to a jeroboam. They were the wines of my first bloom of vinous exploration (once I got past my Boone’s Farm