I have a lovely parcel of one of the great ‘insider’ wines of Burgundy to offer – Comte de Vogue’s legendary Bourgogne Blanc  – a wine which we can otherwise refer to as declassified Musigny Blanc Grand Cru. Given how astronomically rare this wine is, this As you may know, following extensive replanting in the early to mid-1990’s, Vogue were for nearly 25 years required to bottle their mythical Musigny Blanc as lowly Bourgogne instead, waiting for the vines to age and produce fruit of better intensity. This meant exceptional early vintages in the late 1990’s thanks to the young vine effect, followed by a bit...

One of our constant favourites of Chardonnay producers from Burgundy and for many others around the world too, Domaine Leflaive has been an eminent winemaker in the world of wines which has been continuously producing astounding Chardonnay from Puligny-Montrachet for many decades. Madame Anne-Claude Leflaive built a strong reputation for the label under her careful and special attention in the vineyard, making some of the most fruit-forward and terroir-expressive wines that are worthy to be added to every wine collector's cellar since taking over from her father in 1994. Sadly Anne-Claude passed away in 2015 and Brice de La Morandière, Anne-Claude's nephew and great grandson...

Mounir worked in the monastery vineyards in the Middle East in the late 1980s and was where he first learned to make wine. He subsequently studied Viticulture and Oenology in Montpellier, followed by six years of working in Burgundy, other areas of France, and also in California, USA. His wife, Rotem, on the other hand, comes from a cheese-making family and studied agriculture in Dijon and eventually oriented her studies towards wine and even won a national prize for her study of the Cote d'Or from the French Academy of Agriculture. The name "Lucien Le Moine" comprises two references -...