Which means that if you like great white Burgundy, you are going to have to pay dearly to get it.

From the pinot noir grape comes the great red Burgundies, the stuff legends are made of, the gold standard of wines.

"A great Burgundy, after all, is a good local wine in Burgundy."

These are some of them: "Is it possible to describe the attributes of a great red Burgundy?"

But when it came to white wine, they drank Montrachet, the great white Burgundy.

A true Beaujolais, while a long way from being a great Burgundy, is a supple, soft, drinkable wine.

Do any of these wines have the depth and the complexity of the great Burgundies?

Or they can accept the fact that great Burgundies henceforth will be consumed by developers and rock stars who don't know one wine from another.

While they may not reach the heights of some truly great Burgundies, they perform well, sometimes magnificently, year after year.

Tasting and buying great Burgundy is tough work.