A 200th anniversary rather puts our 25th, and my 50th as a wine writer, in the shade. But this was what the Nuits-St-Georges house of Faiveley were celebrating last June, and they are marking the bicentenary with a sale of vintages back to 1908 at Christie’s next month.
The Faiveleys – father François and progeny Erwan and Eve – hosted an extraordinarily generous dinner at the Château du Clos de Vougeot that evening but during the day a select few of us were invited to...
