The Domaine Belleville Rully La Crée 2022 won the White Wine Trophy at the Wine Merchant Top 100 competition. The competition is judged by independent merchant judges who assess wines based on value and quality. Our buyer Hal Wilson is a senior judge for the competition. All wines are tasted blind. It's nice when one of our favourites comes out as the best white wine tastied at the competition. It has lovely minerality and creaminess combined iwith classic white Burgundy.Great concentration for a Rully, with spicy oak influence. The Wine Merchant Top 100 competition is an annual event where independent wine merchants select the top 100 wines based on their quality and value for money. The competition is seen as a trusted source for retailers looking for wines to recommend to their customers.

Superbly elegant Meursault. Nothing thick or cloying to this wine. Brioche and vanilla on the nose and palate. Gentle layer of lemon hovering over events with a sliver of oak making up an incredibly structured wine. Lovely texture.

Outstanding Santenay Blanc from the growers with the oldest vines in the appellation.

An elegant and refined white burgundy wine with delicate floral aromas and a beautifully balanced mineral finish. Pernand-Vergelesses is a small village nestled below the famous limestone Corton hill, known for the prestigious appellation of Corton-Charlemagne. Producing wonderfully mineral and fruit balanced wines, Pernand-Vergelesses offers great value and this old vines example from Vincent Girardin is simply lovely.

Vines of average age 40 years. It is important to understand the subsoil and originality of the different parcels that make up the cuvée ‘Terroir’, seeking to be above all the full expression of Chardonnay. On the palate is developed the freshness of minerality peculiar to Pouilly-Fuissé.

St Aubin has got to be one of the best value wines in Burgundy. This is a full-bodied, generous and precise wine. Easily accessible, it is the perfect accompaniment for aperitifs or a simple cooked meat (charcuterie), poultry or fish dishes.

Made mostly from domaine fruit with the small amount of purchased Narvaux included. Pale lemon colour, lifted and charming. Good acidity behind, medium bodied, this will show a little more opulence later.

Zesty, bitter citrus, lemon, and grapefruit characters, with a biscuity, yeasty character all held together by a spicy acidity, and a lean mineral salinity. Serious integration.

Vines of average age 40 years. It is important to understand the subsoil and originality of the different parcels that make up the cuvée ‘Terroir’, seeking to be above all the full expression of Chardonnay. On the palate is developed the freshness of minerality peculiar to Pouilly-Fuissé.

Intense dried fruit aromas combine with forestal notes of anise and chlorophyll. Firm mouthfeel with a touch of tannin that gives body and texture. Enclosed by drystone walls on three sides and backing steeply onto the Montagne de Beaune, Clos des Monsnières offers a beautiful panorama of Pommard and the Côte. Quite shallow clay-limestone soils over ironstone gravel enable Chardonnay to ripen slowly.

Les Enseignères is one of those stealth values in the complex world of Burgundy. Its western border forms the eastern edge of Batard-Montrachet, and it is one of the rare spots in the Cote d’Or where a grand cru slopes directly down into village-level territory with no premier cru in between. The Prudhons own just shy of a hectare of quite old vines here between 30 and 80 years of age.

Tucked away in the Hautes Cotes de Beaune village of Nolay you will find Clothilde Bergeret, the energetic leader of the family business started by his father Christian. The family has some rather excellent vineayrds in Chassagne, Beaune and Saint Aubin mainly. The philosophy is to make wines of pleasure, with ripeness and oak marking them out as wines to enjoy and to impress. 2/3rd new oak. Dense, sweet spice, yellow fruit, quince, savoury nose. Intense, spicy palate. Weighty, and round with powerful but well integrated oak, and balanced acidity. Generous rather than intense.

On its finings, the village Meursault is blended from lower slope vineyards plus Bois de Blagny just under the forest. Elegant white fruit, a mix of apple and pear, displaying more body weight on the palate. The Meursault retains good acidity as well, so this will continue to build in the right direction.

Expressive nose - cream, lees, baked lemons. Layered, phenolic grip on the palate. Youthful, fruity, and yeasty with bright acidity and a juicy finish. This estate gets better and better and I was impressed by the relative value owner and winemaker Chlotilde still offers.

Jasper Morris MW87-90/100 Also quite a pale colour. The bouquet is a little more pronounced in fresh raspberry fruit, pleasing rather than massive. Very stylish, with a good fruit acid balance. A fine and balanced Savigny without rusticity. Drink 2024 - 2028 Jasper Morris MW, InsideBurgundy.com (January 2023)

Gaelle & Jerome Meunier are doing things the hard way in the modern Bugundy world and starting a domain from scratch. In the last 10 years they have managed to acquire some impressive holdings in Puligny Montrachet as well as their home turf of Mercurey. Their wines started clean and precise, but with successive vintages are becoming more racy and exciting. Expect good things from this new estate. Peach, pear, melon, cream, herbal. Well formed. Mineral, fresh, long. Drink 2028-2037

The palate is opulent between tension and finesse whil leaving a fresh and mineral finish. Good and strong structure in mouth. Robert parker Notes : The 2020 Meursault 1er Cru Les Charmes Dessus is brilliant, unfurling in the glass with aromas of pear, orange oil, white flowers and nutmeg. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and concentrated, with racy acids and a layered, textural mid-palate, it concludes with a saline finish.

Benjamin was able to keep the lees after racking as they were so pure and continue to nourish the wine. Very pale in colour. There is plenty of energy here, lemon infused up front, just the right flesh behind, with a long, agile finish.

Les Fourneaux is a Premier Cru vineyard site on the eastern edge of Chablis. The vineyard is named for its warm microclimate (fourneaux means "furnace" in French), and the Chablis wines produced here have ripe, tropical flavours alongside their intense minerality.

Refined and mellow mouth, full of honey and candied mirabelle aromas. Nice acidity, rich and complex, it has a characteristic hint of minerality.

Outstanding Santenay Blanc from the growers with the oldest vines in the appellation. As the name suggests the vineyard sits below the limestone cliff, which offers protection and allows the vines to thrive. The wine has the hallmarks of a white wine grown on limestone too, offering great acidity alongside the ripe fruit character that old vines provide. We have been working with the Legros brothers Sam and Lenaic since, well, for as long as we can remember, at least 25 years. Their vines are very old and seem to enjoy life on the upper slopes of Santenay, protected from the worst excesses of the climate by limestone cliffs and woodland. They harvest late to offer ripeness and richness, a hedonistic style that is irresistible to us and many customers.

This 'baby Meursault' is derived from two small, advantageously positioned parcels of old vines just outside the village of Meursault. The 2022 is an excellent vintage that offers immense concentration and a more forward expression in the glass. It boasts opulent, rich qualities and focused minerality that mirror what we love in the wines of the appellation.The vineyards of 35 to 60-year-old vines lie just outside the AOC border of Meursault, which dramatically lowers the price while allowing for one of the greatest White Burgundy values we have. This wine is ready to drink now and doesn’t need aging. Zesty, bitter citrus, lemon, and grapefruit characters, with a biscuity, yeasty character all held together by a spicy acidity, and a lean mineral salinity. Serious integration, sheer quality.

Alain Geoffroy's estate produces this old vine premier cru from the Beauroy vineyard, accepted as one of the region's best. This is a very classic style, with aromas of white flowers, tinged with honey and lemon and a rich, rounded palate with those benchmark flinty notes.

Family estaste based in Beine near Chablis, with 50 hectares under vine. 100% Chardonnay fermented and aged in stainless steel tanks to retain freshness. Classic Chablis. Pebble dry, floral and vibrant. Great seafood wine, particularly oysters.

St Aubin has got to be one of the best value wines in Burgundy. This is a full-bodied, generous and precise wine. Easily accessible, it is the perfect accompaniment for aperitifs or a simple cooked meat (charcuterie), poultry or fish dishes.

Fruity that expresses a beautiful aromatic complexity, and which presents a beautiful balance carried by a great freshness.

Textbook white Burgundy nose. A touch of oak but mostly 'just' ripe white orchard fruits. There is a nice stony, straw and honey edge too. Good breadth on the palate. Good ripeness and nicely balanced. Lovely wine for drinking early. Jean-Marc Boillot is a grandson of Etienne Sauzet, and was previously winemaker for Olivier Leflaive. With that mixture of winemaking pedigree and experience it comes as no surprise that Jean-Marc Boillot makes sensational wines. He is one of those rare commodities in Burgundy, a winemaker who produces both red and white wines of the highest quality. Now assisted by daughter Lydie and son Benjamin, Jean-Marc Boillot set up his own domaine in 1985. He started with some rented vines in Pommard, adding Volnay and Pommard from his grandfather’s side in 1988 and the whites, a one-third share of Domaine Etienne Sauzet, from his grandmother in 1991. Including generic burgundy, the domaine now exploits 11 hectares, five red and six white, with the same volume again in négociant cuvées of white wines, especially from the Côte Chalonnaise.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - "The 2021 Santenay 1er Cru Le Beaurepaire is especially good, and the vintage would have appeared to have played to this site's strengths. Delivering musky aromas of orange oil, bergamot, nutmeg, peach and pear mingled with hints of freshly baked bread, it's medium to full-bodied, satiny and charming, with a fleshy, enveloping core of fruit, lively acids and an open but precise profile." 94 pts

100% Chardonnay grown on limestone slopes in the best areas of the Macon. Made by the excellent Buxy cooperative, in stainless steel tanks then bottled after several months on lees. Floral and citrus notes, mouthwatering acidity and lovely long flavour. A superb introduction to White Burgundy this overdelivers for its price.

This excellent white Burgundy comes from the intermediate clay/limestone slopes in the commune of Montagny. Very complex aromas on the nose, with successive fruity, floral and mineral hints, with particular menthol and lemon overtones. A full-bodied and rich wine with amazing finesse and delicate aromas.

Alain Geoffroy's estate produces this old vine premier cru from the Vau Ligneau vineyard in the cooler far west of Chablis, accepted as one of the region's best examples of this vineyard. The vines are on Kimmeridgian soils, rich in minerals and oyster fossils. Crunchy green apple on the palate. Plenty of acidity to keep the palate fresh with a stony character on the finish. Appealing and ready now, perhaps best to drink this over the next two to three years. Geoffroy recommends pairing the wine with cooked oysters, fine poultry, veal escalope or cheese.

Fruity that expresses a beautiful aromatic complexity, and which presents a beautiful balance carried by a great freshness.

Lemony, bright fruit, with steely acidity. Pure and balanced.

Domaine Sylvain Dussort is performing a generational switch, with Anne-Caroline taking over from Sylvain, who has reigned since 1982 at the prominent Meursault address of 12 rue Charles Giraud, just opposite Coche-Dury.The Dussort wines have a solid identity and substantial mid-palate stance. They are not flabby or excessively silky and rich, and they show a qualitative note of reduction that contributes to good balance. The 2023 Aligote is vivid, lively, and fresh. Lovely saline notes, lovely fruit with a hint of oak, 20% new oaks does add texture and weight.

This 30 hectare estate near Azé, is run by sixth generation of the Lenoir family, brother Aurelien and Sylvain. They manage all areas of viniculture and viticulture to the exacting environmental HVE standard. Their Macon Villages Poncemeugnes won a coveted Coup de Coeur in the Guide Hachette 2026. This Vieilles Vignes is cut from the same cloth as the single vineayrd award winning wine, with lots of aromas and fleshy tree fruit, freshened with bright acidity typical of the vintage.

Gaëlle et Jérôme Meunier created their own domain 12 years ago. Their vines are planted on 10 hectares in 4 appellations Mercurey, Rully, Santenay and Puligny-Montrachet (including 1.2ha of 1er Cru). Their production is 100 % hand harvested and reflects their terroir. Gaelle harvested her whites quite early to retain acidity and this has given them a lean, mineral feel. 9 months in oak. Mellow, ripe fruit, cream. Fresh, juicy mineral with some salinity. Citrussy length. 13% ABV Drink 2026-2030