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Burgundy 2008 – a guide

Tuesday 19 January 2010 • 1 min read
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24 Jan – Have now added some brief notes about individual producers and their recent news, or what they said about the 2008 vintage.

20 Jan – I do intend to add some details about individual producers and their performances in 2008 to our massive tasting articles listed below but have been hijacked by a three-day blind tasting of 2006 bordeaux on which I will of course report in detail.  But do keep revisting our 2008 Burgundy survey. 

As I write this late on Monday, Tamlyn Currin and Julia Harding MW are valiantly adding the last tasting notes to our coverage of the 2008 burgundy vintage, which so far provides reviews of more than 1,400 wines (sometimes several tasting notes on any one wine). Please note that the lists are nearly but not quite complete, and I intend to add some notes on individual producers in the tasting articles too.

Here is a guide to our coverage of this extremely varied and rather exasperating – though ultimately by no means entirely disappointing – vintage.  We present tasting notes alphabetically by producer (sur)name.

If you want to see all the notes for one particular village, eg Meursault, use the tasting notes search – just select Meursault in the appellation field and 2008 in the vintage field.  Or, as usual, you could limit your search to wines with a certain minimum score, or to whites or reds, or to a recommended drinking date.

Tasting notes A-D

Tasting notes E-L

Tasting notes M-P

Tasting notes Q-Z

OTHER COVERAGE

A welcome white burgundy horizontal (Free for all) 20 May 2017

2008 white burgundy – ready or not? (Tasting article) 18 May 2017

Nuits-St-Georges under the microscope (Tasting article) 12 March 2013

Catching up with a snail-like vintage (Free for all) 19 Feb 2011

2008 red burgundy – a second look (Free for all) 15 Feb 2011

Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 2008 (Tasting article) 1 Feb 2011

Dom J & N Saumaize, En Crêches 2008 St-Véran (Wines of the Week) 8 Oct 2010

56 Clos de Vougeot 2008s (Tasting article) 28 Jul 2010

Notes from the Côte de Nuits (Inside information) 3 Feb 2010

Notes from the Côte de Beaune (Inside information) 26 Jan 2010

2008 burgundy – the overperformers (overview, part 2) (Free for all) 23 Jan 2010

Merchants offering 2008 burgundies (Free for all) 18 Jan 2010

2008 burgundy – a miracle? (overview, part 1) (Free for all) 16 Jan 2010

Tasting 2008 burgundy (Video) 15 Jan 2010

Burgundy 2008 – some recommendations (Inside information) 13 Jan 2010

Burgundy 2008 – tactics and failure (Don't quote me) 12 Jan 2010

Digital burgundy – and the ideal spittoon (Don't quote me) 11 Jan 2010

2008 burgundies tasted so far (Inside information) 8 Jan 2010

Emmanuel Rouget speaks (Video) 25 Nov 2009

Burgundy 2008, the growing season (Free for all) 3 Nov 2008

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