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Burgundy 2009 – a guide

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Below are quick links to our more than 1,500 tasting notes on 2009 burgundies, divided into four articles by producer (sur)name. These are now just about complete but I aim to add a few individual notes about specific producers and their performance in 2009.  

Below these tasting articles are listed all the many articles we have published about this vintage, plus a couple of the more relevant threads in our forum, with the most recent additions at the top and the earliest reports at the bottom.  

The amateur image above left, by the way, is of the hill of Corton seen from Ladoix last October as I waited to judge the finalists in the Jeunes Talents competition for 2008s made all over Greater Burgundy – see Young turks of Burgundy for some less well known names of producers of interest.

TASTING NOTES/REVIEWS

Leroy, DRC, Dujac, Eugenie 2009s 12 Jan 2012

Burgundy 2009 A-D 27 Jan 2011

Burgundy 2009 E-L 27 Jan 2011 

Burgundy 2009 M-P 27 Jan 2011 

Burgundy 2009 Q-Z 27 Jan 2011

OTHER COVERAGE 

2009 white burgundies reassessed (Tasting Articles) 17 May 2018

Gevrey's 2009s (Tasting Articles) 8 Oct 2012

More 2010 (and 2009) burgundies (Tasting Articles) 4 April 2012

Leroy, DRC, Dujac, Eugénie 2009s (Tasting Articles) 23 Jan 2012

Yesterday in Burgundy (Don't Quote me) 6 Dec 2011

2009 triumphs over Clos de Vougeot (Tasting Articles) 9 Nov 2011

Two related Burgundy names (Tasting Articles) 30 August 2011

Hudelot Noëllat 2009 Bourgogne Rouge 4 Feb 2011

Burgundy 2009 – white wine overview 29 Jan 2011

How to find best-value 2009 burgundies 24 Jan 2011

Burgundy 2009 – red wine overview 22 Jan 2011

Update on burgundy 2009 tasting notes 20 Jan 2011

Burgundy 2009 – some post-tasting thoughts 18 Jan 2011

And Burgundy 2009 kicks off (thread in our forum) 10 Jan 2011

UK merchants offering 2009 burgundy 10 Jan 2011

Burgundy 2009 in London – the week ahead 10 Jan 2011

Tasting young red burgundy (thread in our forum) 8 Jan 2011 

Breaking news – Burg '09 torrent starts here 7 Jan 2011

Climats du Coeur 9 Nov 2010

Burgundy news roundup 1 Nov 2010

Young white burgundies – some great buys 29 Sep 2010 

Tous les neufs – Burgundy 2009 24 Sep 2010 

Olivier Bernstein on video 2 Feb 2010

DRC's rosé? 16 Dec 2009

France's 2009 vintage 4 Sep 2009

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