The Wines of Burgundy [Hardcover]

Ten years after the publication of the highly acclaimed, award-winning wine guideCôte D'Or: A Celebration of the Great Wines of Burgundy, the "Bible of Burgundy," Clive Coates now offers this thoroughly revised and updated sequel. This long-awaited work details all the major vintages from 2006 back to 1959 and includes thousands of recent tasting notes of the top wines, useful as a reference for wine pairing and a primer in how to taste wine. All-new chapters on Chablis and Côte Chalonnaise replace the previous volume's domain profiles. Coates, a Master of Wine who has spent much of the last thirty years in Burgundy, France, considers it to be the most exciting, complex, and intractable wine region in the world, its vineyards and wineries the most likely to yield fine wines of elegance and finesse. This coffee table book is an indispensable guide for the amateur sommelier and food and wine professionals alike by an internationally renowned wine expert, writing with his habitual expertise, lucidity, and unequaled firsthand knowledge.

Clive Coates, MW(Master of Wine), is a renowned wine writer. His fine wine magazine,The Vine,was published from 1984 to 2005. His books includeGrands Vins: The Finest Ch?teaux of Bordeaux and Their Wine, An Encyclopedia of the Wines and Domaines of France,andThe Wines of Bordeaux(all from UC Press).

A master class in Burgundy, given by one of the world's foremost authorities. Jacqueline Friedrich, author ofThe Wines of France

Clive Coates is a thinker as well as a writer and taster of distinction&. For me, he is indispensable reading. Hugh Johnson

Preface
Introduction
Part One: The Villages, the Vineyards, the Domaines

CHABLIS
THE CôTE DOR: THE CôTE DE NUITS
THE CôTE DOR: THE CôTE DE BEAUNE
CôTE CHALONNAISE

Part Two: The Vintages