Stimulated by this thread on our Members' forum, I selflessly tasted 66 examples of red burgundy from the impressive 2005 vintage recently to judge their evolutionary state. (See today's Throwback Thursday Burgundy 2005 – a sizzling market for how this vintage looked on release.) I tasted most of them semi-blind (I knew only village and whether they were a premier or a grand cru) over two days at the end of July at the technical offices of the Bureau Interprofessionnel des Vins de Bourgogne. (See below for a picture of the notice in the car park for a space reserved for...