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		<title>Two weekend 1999s?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 10:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Two 1999s &#8211; currently one of my favourite vintages, but not for these two! Both have been stored in the same corner of the cellar for many years. Every wine will be different, and mainly due to the quality of their corks: 1999 Camille Giroud, Bourgogne En Crêots A wine-saturated cork, though I only broke [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Auctions done and to come&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 20:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Three sales &#8211; 2 for roughly similar values &#8211; but each for way less than a single bottle of Romanée-Conti 1945. The middle of these three for quite a bit more&#8230; Image right from the Auctioneer, Baghera Done &#8211; Andrew Lloyd Weber, £500,000: Andrew Lloyd Webber sold his wine cellar &#8216;treasures&#8216; for charity. Hosted by [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Weekend wines &#8211; chilled(?)</title>
		<link>https://www.burgundy-report.com/2026/05/weekend-wines-chilled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 13:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last week I was in Chablis &#8211; not too cold and not too wet. Unfortunately, the refrigerator in my chambre d&#8217;hôte was set way too cold !! So cold, in fact, that two of my bottles froze in there! The Leroy &#8211; the last of a case of 12 &#8211; almost lost its cork completely. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Winners of the 2026 Hautes-Côtes Wine Excellence Awards&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 10:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Friday, April 24, the 2026 Excellence Awards tasting for the Bourgogne Hautes-Côtes de Beaune and Bourgogne Hautes-Côtes de Nuits wines was held in Beaune. For over 70 years, this tasting has brought together the best wines produced in the high-altitude vineyards of these two regional appellations. In 2026, 101 cuvées were tasted by a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A weekend deux&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://www.burgundy-report.com/2026/05/a-weekend-deux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 08:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[2023 Henri &#038; Gilles Buisson, St.Romain Sous la Velle A great looking cork, topped with a little more than a mm of wax &#8211; a lozenge of wax&#8230; Medium Yellow. The nose starts off biscuity and even suggests a little reduction. Wide, cool-flavoured, some density, and even a little structure. But that&#8217;s only if you&#8217;re [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>European State of the Climate (ESOTC) 2025 report</title>
		<link>https://www.burgundy-report.com/2026/04/european-state-of-the-climate-esotc-2025-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Vintage 2024]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A hot year &#8211; but, judging by this graphic, not so much in Burgundy. It&#8217;s interesting reading, though I found more food for thought looking at the report for the (much) wetter and cooler 2024 vintage&#8230; *Click to access this external site&#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Weekend wines- a bit of Champagne included&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://www.burgundy-report.com/2026/04/weekend-wines-a-bit-of-champagne-included/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always loved Champagne but have no wish to follow the boringly well-trodden route of burgundy reviewers taking on Champagne &#8211; and, effectively, reducing their commitment to Burgundy 🙂 It&#8217;s enough that half of the (also quite expensive) bottles that I try are a little too oxidative for my taste &#8211; but this one was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>extra wine&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Clément Boillot-Barthod opened this wine last week &#8211; semi-blind &#8211; we knew that it was from a &#8216;cold&#8217; vintage because &#8211; &#8220;Warm or Cold vintage?&#8221; &#8211; and we chose cold&#8230; Blind: 1996 Ghislaine Barthod Chambolle-Musigny Veroilles Ooh – now that has plenty of very attractive maturity – but perfume too. Direct, starting silky, but the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A couple of weekend wines&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://www.burgundy-report.com/2026/04/a-couple-of-weekend-wines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[1986 Raveneau, Chablis 1er Butteaux Plenty of colour &#8211; just as I remember. The nose is large and forward, offering obvious botrytis and still plenty of energy &#8211; blind, I might suggest Sauternes !! Nicely vibrant flavour with a good base of minerality and sweetness &#8211; certainly very long and quite torrified in a tarte-tartin [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The last days&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://www.burgundy-report.com/2026/04/the-last-days-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Travels in Burgundy 2026]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[To give you a little colour and flavour from the last days in the Côtes&#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>A weekend Rugiens&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://www.burgundy-report.com/2026/04/a-weekend-rugiens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just a modest single bottle this weekend, as the last glass from last week&#8217;s Chablis, kept in the fridge, was still very drinkable !! 2011 François Gaunoux, Pommard 1er Rugiens A robust cork but a stinky one &#8211; I steel myself for a corked wine &#8211; but no &#8211; hurrah! Also, a wine with no [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>And then there were three&#8230;*</title>
		<link>https://www.burgundy-report.com/2026/04/and-then-there-were-three/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[The Market]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[My first thoughts, if asked to isolate just four major owners of grand crus that (for those with very deep pockets) would be hyper-attractive ownership propositions, would be to choose Leroy, Camus, Thénard and Damoy &#8211; roughly in that order. It seems that my list has already shrunk to three&#8230; More details will doubtless come [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The recent weather and it&#8217;s implications&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://www.burgundy-report.com/2026/04/the-recent-weather-and-its-implications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s started to get warm, but it&#8217;s only 10 days since the candles, windmills and burners were doing their thing in many parts of Burgundy. The worst of the frost seemed to be, as usual, in Chablis. Temperatures as low as -6°C were seen near Chichée &#8211; and that&#8217;s not a place that&#8217;s afforded much [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>a couple from last weekend</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[1998 Denis Mortet Gevrey-Chambertin I don&#8217;t know what they used for glue in those days, but overnight in the fridge, buth the neck and main label fell off ! Still plenty of colour &#8211; it&#8217;s not old looking. What a large-scale nose of bloody fruit and higher tones that are modestly redolent of the barrel [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>1945 Romanée-Conti and all that &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since this &#8211; eh ? bang! 1945 romanée-conti &#8211; half a million a bottle&#8230; And now we have: As shocking as that price may be, I am more shocked that whisky sells for more at auction: &#8216;The most expensive whisky sold at auction is The Macallan Valerio Adami 1926 60-Year-Old, which [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>My weekend: 2020 Jules Desjourneys Beaujolais Villages Blanc</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Roughly signing off from what turned out to be quite a heavy cold, there was also a 1996 Penfolds Bin 707 with a rubbish, crumbly cork. But the cork had been a good seal and the wine was in perfect condition&#8230; 2020 Jules Desjourneys Beaujolais Villages Blanc Modest colour. A deep nose, with a subtly [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>2026&#8217;s early frost&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[View this post on Instagram A post shared by Domaine Hubert Lamy (@domainelamy) Although, to an extent, already deployed in Chablis, the last of the candles, &#8216;smudge-pots,&#8217; trace-heating wires, heat-cannons and windmills were put in place in the Côte d&#8217;Or during Wednesday and Thursday. For the last two nights, they have been put to use [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pinot noir and old French toilets&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pinot noir and old French toilets &#8211; what&#8217;s not to love? 1. PDF &#8211; just for when the link is no more&#8230; 2. Link to study]]></description>
		
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