Affordable Red Villages

Ian,

The $5.99 bourgogne was 2004 Frdric Magnien Bourgogne Hautes Ctes de Nuits Genevrires bought from Premier Cru with no minimum purchase. I haven't had the wine yet; since I live in Dallas I'll have to wait until the temperature are reliably lower. I bought strictly based on price; it's gotta be worth $6.

I would disagree about 2004 being a difficult vintage in burgundy. For my taste, it is a very pleasurable and drinkable year. My view of the vintage is light body with pure and intense flavor.

Lee suggested not to forget the Pernod reds. I couldn't agree more. The producers that are more known for whites make some great reds. I would add Marc Colin's 2004 Chassagne-Montrachet rouge, Matrot's 2004 Mersault rogue, and in a different vintage, the 2002 J-M Pillot Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Macherelles which I found on sale locally @ $35.00. It's drinking beautifully right now.

Try the 2004, esp. bourgogne and villages.

best,
bill
 
Sharon -- If in fact Caves du Panthon sold you the wine as Lafarge Bourgogne-Passetoutgrains blanc, I suggest that you sit down and have a serious talk with them. I asked Frdric and Michel Lafarge about this, and it is a wine that they do not produce, and moreover they pointed out, as I did above, they could not produce one because there is no such thing as a Bourgogne-Passetoutgrains blanc. The only ways that they could have sold you a white wine with a Bourgogne-Passetougrains label would have been to empty the bottle of BPT red and fill it with white or to apply a label for red BPT to a bottle of white -- fraud either way.
 
originally posted by Cliff:
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
originally posted by Cliff:
I really like Lafouge. Dureuil-Janthial, Proudhon, and Paul Pernot are also very strong. I've liked Marc Colin in this price-range in the not too distant past, but I haven't seen them for awhile.
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Cliff, 'twas you who, Yoda-like, pointed me at Lafouge a few months ago. Merci, and may the force be with you.

Ian
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Glad you liked them. They've really stood apart for me lately.
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Just grabbed a Lafouge for the first time -- 2006 Auxey-Duresses "La Chapelle" -- really very fine.
 
originally posted by Zachary Ross:
Just grabbed a Lafouge for the first time -- 2006 Auxey-Duresses "La Chapelle" -- really very fine.
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Hooray. Chapelle is what we opened a couple of months ago, and I still think back on it fondly.

I need to try his whites soon.
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Is it confusing to anyone else hereabouts that a wine is named both Grand and Ordinaire?
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I find it completely in line with when my wife refers to me as "extra-ordinary".
 
originally posted by Paul Hagerman:
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Is it confusing to anyone else hereabouts that a wine is named both Grand and Ordinaire?
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I find it completely in line with when my wife refers to me as "extra-ordinary".
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You lucky dog. I can't repeat in polite company what my wife refers to me as.

Mark Lipton
 
Two of my favorite "affordable" Burgundy producers are Goisot and Domaine de Chassorney. Goisot produces quite nice reds and whites in St Bris for around 10-13 (here in Spain), the Sauvignon Blanc is the cheapest and I really like it.
From Dom. de Cassorney I'm addicted to his white Bigotes at 24.
Also De Villaine's Aligot is a very interesting wine for just 10.
P. Pacalet's St. Aubins are 34 here in Madrid, not a bad buy, specially the "En Remilly".
If we move south to Beaujolais... then there are more options.
 
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