Out and about this week in the Hautes Côtes de Beaune and the Hautes Côtes de Nuits. Backwater bridge biuilding and some quite amazing rapport-qualité prix. Beaune Premier Cru Les Aigrots at 19 euros anyone?
The vines are three weeks ahead of schedule and the temperature is low. There’s an icy wind from the north with the mercury hovering around zero. With a couple of weeks still until the Saints Glaces, growers are nervous.
So far so good, watch this space and Purple Pages for the report on the Nantoux and “ses environs”. If not quite El Dorado, perhaps a promised land…
Legless in Burgundy 