At its best 2011 Burgundy is a good vintage for the on-trade: elegant, drinkable and expressive. But more than ever it pays to know your producers… and to be on good terms with your bank manager. Tim Atkin MW treads warily

10 years ago, you could tell an Aussie Chardonnay from a Burgundy at 20 paces, but nowadays, with much more linear wines from Down Under it’s not so easy. Clinton Cawood mixes things up and asks a team of trembling tasters for their thoughts

With a general lack of great available vintages to call on, this was a category that polarised the opinions of the tasters

Advertising watchdogs have banned a Corney & Barrow ad publicising a 'Beaujolais breakfast' offer.

Could the enthusiasm about the latest Burgundy release be warranted this time? Clinton Cawood buttonholes some sommeliers at the January tastings and finds reasons for genuine excitement

Burgundians will tell you that you can’t grow decent Pinot outside Burgundy. A blind tasting of 100 examples from the around the globe suggests otherwise, says Clinton Cawood

With the 2009s likely to be stupidly expensive, it could pay to know your way around 2008 white Burgundy a bit better. Chris Losh watches as a team of tasters get to grips with premier cru and villages wines from a ‘traditional’ vintage

Growers in the region have slashed their yields for 2010 after the demand for Nouveau wines plummeted over recent years.

Jasper Morris MW has distilled nearly three decades’ experience of buying and selling Burgundy into a book

With zillions of producers, huge variations in quality and high prices, Burgundy can be a minefield for the sommelier. Louis Villard quizzes the experts to find out where they go to pick up bargains

White Burgundy is historically one of the strongest categories in the competition, and so it proved again, while the reds had their best showing ever

Complicated it might be, but there are treasures in Burgundy if you know where to look. Navigating his way through whirlpool prices and puzzled natives in search of vinous gold, Hamish Anderson finds that the region is shining brighter than ever before

Burgundy is not the first place you’d normally go looking for value for money. Clinton Cawood joined a team of hopeful sommeliers as they went truffling for bargains from the Côtes

At the end of July, Imbibe teamed up with Burgundy négociant Joseph Drouhin to run a masterclass for some of the country’s top sommeliers. Chris Losh went along in the hope of a free glass of Montrachet

In the second of our three-part series on the basics of food and wine-matching, Hakkasan’s wine buyer Christine Parkinson tells us how to go about pairing wines with meat