If you have not yet discovered the Mâconnais wines of Domaine Guffens-Heynen, you are in for a treat. A massive retrospective tasting in London at the end of last year established what the Belgian bad boy has been attempting to prove for a winemaking lifetime: that his wines can easily withstand comparison with the finest white burgundies. See some background on this producer in this 2016 wine of the week.
Jean-Marie Guffens’ and Maine Heynen’s holdings around Vergisson, where...