Picking bins have been washed and stacked after the 2020 vintage. The press is packed away. So now is the time to assess the 2019 vintage. Will its charm be sufficient to stave off a certain cooling of the world's wine drinkers' love affair with burgundy?
It hasn't been easy to get to Burgundy to taste the 2019s but once I got there, the wines were delightfully easy to like – at the superior domaines I visited anyway. I'm hoping to continue to deepen my acquaintance with these wines grown in a seriously hot year and will continue to add tasting articles, since there is a steady trickle of burgundy 2019 tastings in London.
General articles
Burgundy 2019 – UK merchants making offers (Free for all) 17 December 2020 but continuously updated
Burgundy picking and flowering dates 1975–2020 (Free for all) 7 December 2020
2019 burgundy – what to buy (Free for all) 21 November 2020
2019s tasted in Burgundy – introduction (Inside information) 9 November 2020
US tariffs and the pandemic – double jeopardy (Inside information) 9 June 2020
2019: hot stuff (Free for all) 5 October 2019
Tasting articles
F & D Clair's 2019s and some northerners 23 February 2021
Raeburn's 2019 burgundies – part 2 12 February 2021
Vindependents' 2019 burgundies 4 February 2021
Some more 2019 burgundies 21 January 2021
Howard Ripley's 2019 burgundies 20 January 2021
Burgundy 2019 – Parcellaires de Saulx 5 January 2021
Lea & Sandeman's 2019 burgundies 4 January 2021
Raeburn's 2019 burgundies 31 December 2021
Burgundy 2019 – Bellene and Marchand-Tawse 30 December 2020
Burgundy 2019 – Fèvre and Bouchard Père et Fils 29 December 2020
Jeroboams' 2019 burgundies 28 December 2020
2019s from Bichot and Chanson 23 December 2020
Burgundy 2019 – the Aussies 21 December 2020
Burgundy 2019 – Louis Jadot 14 December 2020
Burgundy 2019 – Bourgogne de Vigne en Verre 9 December 2020
Burgundy 2019 – Drouhin 7 December 2020
Montrachet's 2019 burgundies 18 November 2020
2019s tasted in Burgundy – M to T 12 November 2020
2019s tasted in Burgundy – L 11 November 2020
2019s tasted in Burgundy – B to E 10 November 2020