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Burgundy 2020 – Bourgogne de Vigne en Verre

Monday 17 January 2022
Vincent and François Bitouzet

20 wine samples from the 2-cl sample bottles sent to London by Bourgogne de Vigne en Verre. In Jon Wyand's portrait, Vincent and François Bitouzet, who made the top-scoring wine. See this guide to all our coverage of the 2020 burgundies.

Bourgogne de Vigne en Verre (BVV), a Tournus-based marketing initiative for a host of different domaines, was created as long ago as 1981. The export manager Virginie Loreaux explains:

'At the time, the winegrowers, in fact the parents of the current winegrowers, thought that their "know-how" and their "desire to do" were in the vines and in the cellars...

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