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General information:
Viticultural Burgundy covers five regions:
- Chablis
- Côte de Nuits
- Côte de Beaune
- Côte Chalonnaise
- Maconnais
Total production from 26,500 hectares of vines, which equates to 200 million bottles of wine.
Production is two thirds white wine to one third red wine.
Some answers to your questions about burgundy:
a) the attributes of a great red burgundy ?
- the soil and exposition of the vineyard;
- low yields;
- a hospitable growing season;
- winemaking;
b) Why are the best burgundies prohibitively expensive ?
The pricing of burgundy can be explained entirely by the rules of supply and demand. Truly microscopic quantities of wine offereed by the best producers and a worldwide demand.
c) What are the significant differences in the wines of the Côte de Beaune and Côte de Nuits ?
The red wines of the Côte de Nuits tend to be fuller, slightly more tannic and are characterized by a more earthy, black fruit and exotic character than those from the Côte de Beaune. Indeed, the wines from Côte de Beaune tend to offer slighlty less body, less tannin and seem to filled with aromas and flavors of red fruits.
While the Côte de Nuits produces only a handful of white wines, of which a few are superlative, the Côte de Beaune produces the world's greatest wines from the Chardonnay grape.
