Mature and maturing burgundies

puppet in cellars in Beaune, Burgundy

This is a Burgundian version of last week's collection of nearly 100 tasting notes on Mature and maturing bordeaux back to 1950, a response to your request for more reviews of older vintages. Since bordeaux is made in so much greater quantity than burgundy, I was quite surprised to find that these burgundy tasting notes totalled as many as 77 (32 whites and 45 reds) back to the great 1959 vintage. Part of the reason is that these notes were taken over a much longer period than those in the bordeaux collection. Some of them date from my visits to...