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A burgundy ragbag

Tuesday 16 February 2021
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A collection of 44 burgundies older than 2019 reviewed by Julia, Tam, Richard and Jancis. Above is from Dom J Coudray-Bizot's website, the En Orveaux corner of the grand cru Échezeaux.

We have been busy tasting the 2019s that have been recently, or are currently, offered en primeur. See this guide to our extensive coverage of 2019 burgundy.

But we have also been lucky enough to taste burgundies from older vintages, from 2018, through the very drinkable 2017s and some older vintages back to a very special 1989. We have collected all these tasting notes below, grouping them...

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