There’s an endless stream of articles about ‘good value’ Burgundy, but I only take notice of 2 sources before following up with my own research.

1. The annual Cave Prestige and
2. The Tastevinage ‘Masters.’

Here’s the former list, unveiled yesterday in Beaune – and it’s big list !! You will find many new names – also new to me – and wines that have succeeded through multiple rounds of tastings.

The room was a little too warm (it’s 2026!) and there were too many tasters to properly attack the displayed samples, but I tasted a number, and all rated from ‘great’ to ‘technically completely fine.’

The 2026 Cave Prestige

Click right for the full list…

The Press Release:
The 55th edition of the Burgundy Wine Board’s Prestige Wine List recognised 140 wineries, houses, and estates at its awards ceremony on Wednesday, July 15. This demanding selection honours wines that, each year, embody the high standards, diversity, and expertise of Burgundy winemakers. It will support the Burgundy Wine Committee’s promotional, training, and outreach activities, both in France and internationally.

The 2026 line-up has 188 ways to express Burgundy out of 1,491 submitted samples, representing a particularly demanding selection rate of 12.6%.

In total, 140 companies were represented out of 340 participants. This edition also confirms the dynamism of the Burgundy wine region, with 33 companies recognised for the first time or returning to the selection since 2017, representing 23.5% of the winners.

The selection is based on a blind tasting conducted by expert panels composed of technicians, oenologists, and industry professionals. Wines must obtain a minimum score of 16/20 in the initial tasting before being submitted to a “super panel” tasked with confirming their inclusion in the Prestige Cellar. They are then deemed “exceptional.” In 2026, six tastings were organised, involving 200 judges.

The 2023 vintage once again takes first place (101 wines, representing 53.7% of the selection), partly due to production volumes. The much rarer 2024 vintage comes in second place (58 wines, representing 30.8%). As a side note, only one wine from the 2025 vintage appears on the list: the tastings took place in March, and this vintage was only exceptionally bottled at that time.

A diverse Burgundy, from the Mâconnais to the Châtillonnais

The 57 Regional Appellations also reflect the diversity of this essential gateway to Burgundy wines: 28 Bourgogne and Mâcon plus appellation, 20 Crémant de Bourgogne, and 9 Bourgogne, Bourgogne Aligoté, or Coteaux Bourguignons. Let’s not forget that this category represents 50% of total Burgundy wine production.

The geographical distribution of the selected wineries confirms the regional focus of the selection, with 15 from the Mâconnais, 25 from the Côte Chalonnaise and Côtes du Couchois, 55 from the Côte de Beaune, 16 from the Côte de Nuits, 12 from Chablis, 14 from the Grand Auxerrois, and 3 from the Châtillonnais.

A few wines tasted:

2023 Guillemette & Xavier Besson, Givry 1er Les Grands Vignes
A rounder, more woolly cushion to this fruit aroma. Extra scale and dimensions of flavour, with more finishing bitters. Fine but less delicious today – keep it 3 year…

2023 Chanzy, Bourgogne Côte Chalonnaise La Fortune
Wide, darker fruit but aromas of clarity and energy. Lovely shape, quite sensual texture in the mouth. Lots of concentration too. A more serious wine than the Jessiaume today, and just a little less delicious – but clearly excellent in a couple of years…

2023 Arnoux Père, Chorey-lès-Beaune
Direct, good depth of aroma. Wide, more stony and structural style but with delicious intensity – yum!

2023 Françoise André, Beaune 1er Les Reversées
Deeper colour. High tones and plenty of aromatic interest. Wide, layered, stony flavours and some structural depth to this flavour too. Really wide finishing – excellent but young wine – wait 3 plus years.

2022 Bachey-Legros, Santenay Les Champs Claudes Vieilles-Vignes
A first attack of high toned freshness. Hmm, concentration that melts over the palate. Flavour-packed, tasty young wine but still accessible – a lovely finish!

2023 Stéphanie Colinot, Irancy La Comme
A rounder, quite delicious impression from this nose. Large in the mouth, concentrated but accessible flavour. Long finishing too – keep it 2 years but this is super…

2023 Jacques Prieur, Corton-Bressandes
Hmm, breadth, depth and a subtle perfume to this large-scaled aromatic – of course, there’s a little oak too. Hmm, a different level of depth, width and sinuously growing flavour – by far the most oak – too much for today, but that’s got great potential – wait 7-8 years, primarily for the oak to be consumed…

And some whites:

2023 Alain Geoffray, Chablis
Subtle, delicate, flowers and fruit. Narrow after a Corton , but delicious mouth-cleansing and moreish. Love…

2024 Chateau du Val de Mercy, Bourgogne Chitry Le Fort
Extra scale and lots of vibrational energy to this nose. More mineral and melting, wider too. Also more structural – delicious wine, just less delicious than the Geoffray today !!

2024 Vignerons d‘Igé, Mâcon-Villages Terroirs des Brigands
The longest name! Breadth of aroma with an extra warmer depth and spice to the flavours. Very attractive wine.

2023 Belleville Rully Les St.Jacques
A nicely direct nose, subtly, attractively fruited and even a little floral. Good scale, some very modest oak flavour today too. The finish is super !!

2024 Guerrin et Fils, Pouilly-Fuissé 1er La Marechaude
Stony white fruit from this more vertical nose. Wide, some minerality to balance a little generosity. A strong finish. Excellent PF !!

2023 Albert Morot, Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Bataillère, Clos de la Batalliere
A narrower, more linear nose – clean, pure a very fine invitation. Mouth-filling with a fine blend of structure and shape… Yum !!

2023 La Chablisienne, Chablis 1er Montée de Tonnerre
Here’s a more floral freshness – not large in scale, but it doesn’t need to be. Cool, wide, mineral, everything that it should be. The finish just keeps widening. Better in 1-2 years but a super wine. La Chablisienne is not the cheapest, but in this company it is great value…

2022 Jolly, Chablis 1er Fourchaume – Homme Mort
From the part nearest Maligny and opposite the pump for the ‘aspersion.’
An attractive nose – some generosity but also an obvious salinity. That generosity is visible in this delicious width of flavour – but never tumbling into richness. Just such an easy wine to drink despite it’s impressive concentration. Lovely!
Rebuy – Yes

2021 Julien Brocard, Chablis La Boissonneuse
Magnum. Here in 1998 were the domaine’s first tests in biodynamics
Clearly also a hint more generous than when first tasted – aromatically and from a flavour perspective – but here is more zing than the Homme Mort – if a little less concentration – but still with fine impact. Subtly, this is even more delicious. This is a great villages !!
Rebuy – Yes

2007 Mugnier, Nuits St.Georges 1er Clos de la Maréchale
The cork breaks in two, but the last part comes out easily enough with an ‘Ah-So.’
A round but attractive nose, more than subtly smoky. Wide over the palate with decently juicy, smoky (oaky) flavours too, and still a small line of finishing bitters that bookend the transparent red fruit. There’s fine depth of flavour here from a wine that’s showing rather young – it’s more of a very good wine than an outstanding one. I have a couple more and would think that 5 more years should be adequate. Only to note that on day two, the last of this was subtly bretty…
Rebuy – Maybe

Link…

Announced today, there are 9 in the Côte d’Or:

Côte de Nuits
Domaine Cécile Tremblay
Domaine Dugat-Py
Domaine Roumier
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti
Domaine Leroy
Côte de Beaune
Domaine d’Auvenay
Domaine Coche-Dury
Domaine Jean-Marc & Thomas Bouley
Domaine Hubert Lamy

Feel free to discuss 🙂

EDIT: For those who didn’t find the link to the wider list:
https://guide.michelin.com/gb/en/article/wine/the-winners-of-the-first-michelin-grape-selection-in-the-heart-of-burgundy-france
I think the omissions are more glaring than a few strange inclusions…

2024 Hamelin, Chablis 1er Beauroy
From the Côte de Savant – planted in 1985 & 1987.
Very open aromatics – perfumed, with a small richness of citrus fruit. I remember this as more incisive at the domaine, but the richness of the nose is also bringing some generosity to the flavour. Yet, here is still a wine of salinity and energy – it’s also quite delicious !!
Rebuy – Yes

2024 J&J Archambaud, Vosne-Romanée
A domaine that I visited for the first time last week. 3 parcels assembled – Communes, Chalandins and Au Dessous de la Rivière – the oldest vines coming from the 1930s, Chalandins has the youngest vines, and these date from the 1990s…
Fine aromatic scale and lots of width to this aroma – stylishly spiced. A wine that’s fluid but also delivers impressive concentration – even ignoring that this is from 2024! Modest but attractive bitters in the finish and excellent texture too. An excellent villages !!
Rebuy – Yes

My apologies.

For the first time in 24 years, Burgundy Report had some ‘downtime’ that lasted more than 5 minutes – it was actually for about 15 hours over the weekend.

Mea Culpa. I updated something that I shouldn’t have updated – or at least not at the weekend with hardly any support cover !!

Sorry…