« …but what is clear is that 2022 is another very strong Burgundy vintage, offering excellence in both colors and in a wide variety of styles, foregrounding the fascinating nuances of site that render this region so interesting. »

« Surely the vintage’s success is in part owing to how wine producers are adapting. In the vineyards, few today deleaf systematically. Cultivated soils force roots deeper, delivering greater resilience. Some growers favor higher canopies to shade the soils and the fruit. »

« Beyond any doubt, 2022 has produced excellent wine, both red and white, up and down the Côte d’Or and beyond. But more than a month after I started to taste the 2022s way down in the ever-so-lovely frontier land of Maranges, there remains the question: is it great, is it excellent or just merely good? My answer lies somewhere in between: more than occasionally great, mostly excellent, rarely just good. »« This said, and in conclusion, 2022 is a good-to-excellent vintage that offers ripe, well-fruited, classical Pinot Noir and fresh, bright Chardonnay and, perhaps most importantly, it offers those in quantity. Across the board and in both colours 2022 offers a fresh, balanced profile of wine for medium- to long-term drinking. It is a vintage that supports and underscores the wisdom of Burgundy’s AOC system; the best wines really are the best wines. Such is the balance of the vintage’s fruit, so refined its acidity, that value and quality are widely available everywhere. »