Burgundy’s communal caricatures: thoughts from Meursault

Communal caricatures—buttery Meursault, muscular #Pommard, elegant Chambolle, etc—still exert a powerful influence over how many wine lovers think about Burgundy. In this video, William Kelley is at the top of the slope in #Meursault, and questions why we expect wines from vastly different sites that simply happen to fall within the same administrative boundaries to share many of the same properties, and explore the origins of the impressively durable stereotypes that adhere to the Côte d’Or’s various villages.

He concludes by arguing that the largest denominator of #terroir is not the commune but rather the climate.