MW Wines managing director Nick Stamford selects five diverse red Burgundies from the company’s Museum Wine Shop.
This is a blend of grapes from more than 40 different Premier Cru vineyards surrounding Burgundy’s unofficial capital, Beaune. Bouchard has been making this cuvee since 1904 and it’s a great example of high quality, but relatively affordable Burgundy.
It’s complex fruit coupled with good structure. Drink now or anytime over the next seven years. From the legendary Hubert de Montille, who passed away in 2014, this has all the hallmarks of the great 2010 vintage – elegant but powerful and perfumed, with fantastic length and structure.
It’s delicious now, but has years ahead of it. This is a great example of high-level Premier Cru Burgundy hitting its peak. It has a super-expressive nose, with a velvety, almost shimmering palate, and excellent length and balance. It was a huge hit at a recent staff tasting. This is getting into very serious, very ageworthy Burgundy, from one of the region’s longestablished stars. Powerful, complex and balanced, with a firm structure and huge length, it’s just starting to show what a monumental wine it will be. Give it another five years and then drink over the ensuing 20. Rousseau’s Chambertin is one of Burgundy’s legendary wines, with the Chambertin vineyard often considered one of Burgundy’s greatest Grand Crus. This wine is firm and brooding, with serious underlying power and length. It demands cellaring time, gaining complexity and expressiveness while retaining its power and length. Leave for 10 years, if you can, and drink over the following 20. A must for any serious Burgundy collector’s cellar, this wine is becoming extremely difficult to find.