We have an interesting thread on what Burgundy producers make up most of the Burgundies in your cellar. Most (but certainly not all) the producers listed are red wine producers (or firms like Bouchard or Drouhin that make both reds and whites). I thought it would be interesting to see what a similar thread on the top 10 white Burgundy producers (by quantity of bottles) in your cellar will bring up. For many of us, we are trying to manage the numbers of white Burgundies in our cellars because of premox, not keeping the wines as long as one would have done a generation ago, but still I thought this would be interesting and informative as to what others like.
For me,
Moreau-Naudet
PYCM
Dublere
Bernard Moreau
Caroline Morey
Ramonet
Drouhin
Christian Moreau
Bouchard
[there would be a large tie for 10th with not that many bottles of any one of them]
For me, the numbers of bottles of each are much smaller than the numbers for reds. Moreau-Naudet lept into first place for two reasons. One, I tried to buy some after Stephane Moreau died (which happened about a month or two after we visited him for the first time). Second, we had a party last summer at our country club and served 2015 village Chablis for our white. We had a bunch left over that we are now enjoying. Without the leftover wine from the party, Moreau-Naudet would be in fifth.
I still have a fair share of white Burgundy in my cellar… though the ones I still buy from are now strictly limited to:
Ramonet
Roulot
Dauvissat
Jacques Carillon
Daniel Barraud
Sebastien Magnien
I have a few others left in the cellar from purchases made 5+ years ago, including Coche-Dury, Leflaive, Raveneau, Buisson-Charles, Pierre Morey and a few others.
The only value I can add to a “list” of producers is that the list has shrunk and I have absolutely no intention to seek more even if I’ve been impressed by a few wines I drank from Henri Germain or Armand Heitz, for instance. I drink much less white Burgundy than I used to. Riesling (in particular) has taken a much bigger part of my purchases and for these, the “bang for the buck” is -for my taste- vastly superior. But that is a completely different subject…
Marc Colin
Then some Fevre, Prieur, Montille, Jadot.
Lesson learned, I try to drink all bottles within 8-10 years maximum. I also buy less white Burg than before, and I drink more dry Riesling from Alsace and dry Chenin from Loire.
Like many, white burg is a small part of my cellar (About 5%), but it’s a bit misleading because I actually drink a decent amount of it. I just tend to buy the lower tiers, or aged bottles if I can find them, and drink them fairly quickly. So in the last year or so it’s more like 13% of my consumption.
I neither buy the high end stuff that needs a lot of age, nor aged bottles in the market. Ah, premox fears!
Anyway, top 5 in cellar
Dauvissat
Collet
Latour-Giraud
Henri Boillot
PYCM
Top 5 Consumed
Leflaive
Sauzet
Billaud-Simon
H. Boillot
Roulot
With premox I have drastically narrowed the selection and buy a lot more bottles of each wine to ensure better odds of having several come out well. To that end I really only have two producers I buy every year in quantity- and it has been that way for a while, so there is not much else besides the following in descending order,
I’m doing well, thanks Howard. I am still enjoying wine as much as ever, just no time for writing about it
I hope you are doing well too!
Daniel Barraud makes very interesting Pouilly-Fuissé and Mâcon wines. Very much in the style of wines I like, very mineral, classical style which value elegance over power. They age well and their QPR is hard to beat! If you can get your hands on any of his 14s, do not hesitate.
Sebastien Magnien is based in Meursault, he’s a young winemaker (he is about 30 years old) which makes rather elegant wines as well. The style is not as restrained as Roulot but I do really like the transparency of the wines. He produces villages Meursault since 2005 and a truly great Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Folatières since 2011. He also makes very interesting reds, btw (I absolutely love his Volnay “Les Échards”). I enjoy them at least as much as his whites. Sebastien is not related to the other Magnien who are in the Côte de Nuits, afaik.
Dennis, are the Ampeau wines older wines or recent vintages? I ask because I occasionally see and buy older Ampeau wines but have never seen an Ampeau wine from a more recent vintage.
