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A few of the other wines on the tasting weren’t quite up to the mark, including a bottling from Olivier Leflaive, who left Domaine Leflaive in 1994 to start his own eponymous cellar. The Bourgogne Blanc Olivier Leflaive Les Sétilles 2019 ($ 22) was a Bourgogne Blanc different from the others: simple and pleasant and perfectly pleasant but a bit of a footnote.

This is the biggest challenge in buying a wine labeled Bourgogne Blanc: The wines are so different from one producer to another. The best wines in my tasting were an ideal combination of talent and source, and I would recommend buying as many bottles of these 2019 Bourgogne Blancs as possible. This is all the more important since there is perhaps a phone number library lot less Burgundy: as I finished reporting this column, I learned that the 2021 Burgundy harvest had been even more difficult than 2019, but without also positive results. It is perhaps one of the smallest Burgundy harvests ever recorded. How much wine is made – and how much it will cost – has not yet been known. A $ 100 Burgundy may seem cheap in retrospect.

1. 2019 Patrick Piuze ‘Les Boutots’ Bourgogne Tonnerre, $ 26; 2. 2019 Domaine Bzikot Bourgogne Côte d’Or Chardonnay, $ 39; 3. 2019 Domaine Ballot Millot Bourgogne Chardonnay, $ 33; 4. 2019 Henri Boillot Bourgogne, $ 39; 5. 2019 Joseph Colin La Combe Bourgogne, $ 40
1. 2019 Patrick Piuze ‘Les Boutots’ Bourgogne Tonnerre $ 26
Montreal sommelier turned winemaker Patrick Piuze makes highly sought-after Chablis. He also produces this delicious, full-bodied and resolutely mineral white Burgundy from a vineyard located outside the enclosure of Chablis.

2. 2019 Domaine Bzikot Bourgogne Côte d’Or Chardonnay $ 39
Sylvain Bzikot’s wines are wonderfully easy to drink. This supple and mineral copy comes mainly from a vineyard called Les Houlières, near the famous Leflaive Bourgogne Blanc vineyard in Puligny-Montrachet.