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Anybody? I browse a great many wine shops lists etc and find it all a bit much. The geography I have got my head around, mostly. Vintages less so, but I seem to have had fantastic wines from so-so years and strange things from 'great' years. I think I get that it's the producers that I need to understand better. And then to make matters worse I have found really beautiful wines from a producer, buy some more of a different vintage and they are awful.

Do I just accept the lemons as part of the price to pay?

I tend to buy at most half a case of one wine, even just odd bottles of the dearer stuff. I cannot go over £100/bottle. Entry level wines at £20 to £30 a bottle have been my sorest trial.

Is there a short cut to consistency?

I don't know anything about red Burgundy wine but would like to taste some this autumn. So this thread is most welcome. Thanks Owen.
Are there no reliable négociants or producers that one could use as first guide or road map? What do the experts here think of Louis Jadot?

I have had quite a few village wines from Jadot and liked them well enough to buy some 1er Cru wines from 2005 (Nuits and Gevery). But as I had a terrible accident with a case of 1er Cru wines from Dupont Tisserandot 2005, whereby a whole dozen disappeared in about six months I thought I should leave the rest of my 05s in store until they are a bit older, lest the same fate should befall them.

LGTrotter wrote:I had a terrible accident with a case of 1er Cru wines from Dupont Tisserandot 2005, whereby a whole dozen disappeared in about six months

I seem to remember having similar accidents with a number of cases of vintage port

An article on Jancis Robinson's website which is worth a read for a good explanation of how Burgundy works (and why it is difficult to establish simple rules for what to look for). The article starts off talking about hail storms, but then goes on to explain more.