Burgundy 2009 – some post-tasting thoughts

Tamlyn Currin is spending this week valiantly uploading all our combined tasting notes on Burgundy's 2009s and I see there are already more than 1,000 there (not counting the substantial number of reviews of Beaujolais 2009 that are also in our bank of well over 52,000 tasting notes). She reckons that we probably have about 1,500 in all.

Of course we wouldn't claim to have managed to review the 2009s of every single Côte d'Or producer but I hope we have most of the significantly exported growers covered. One notable exception this year is Domaine de la Romanée-Conti since, for...