St.-Aubin is nestled in the Côte de Beaune subregion of Burgundy Driving through Burgundy for the first time Though I studied the region for months during my wine certification courses and dreamed of one day visiting it’s a different story when you’re surrounded by both the prized bourgogne grapes and the experts who know more than a thing or two about some of the world’s best wines and terroir So, for the next three days, I vow to become a sponge, absorbing all the knowledge (and wine) I can from France’s famed wine region and from my travel partner And I would have some fun doing it because wine is to be enjoyed Book now: Le Relais Bernard Loiseau A check-in to Le Relais Bernard Loiseau—a five-star stunner that’s more like a famed institution than a hotel in France—serves as a gateway to the celebrated wine regions of Burgundy The 33-room Relais & Châteaux property is situated between Chablis and Beaune in a small town called Saulieu which often served as a stopping-off point for travelers driving from Paris to the south of France before main highways were built and Salvador Dali are among the guests who have walked through its doors Loiseau committed suicide in 2003 after rumors that he would lose his third Michelin star but his family has unwaveringly continued his legacy—steered by his wife Dominique The hotelier is a biochemist and journalist by trade who has also penned a number of books and curates the property’s gardens Meeting her for the first time is like watching an unassuming force blow its way through each room She’s an empathetic businesswoman who commands attention and respect without having to say a word Time your visit right to enjoy the food and wine of Burgundy outside Relais Bernard Loiseau houses a two-Michelin-starred restaurant which still serves many of chef Loiseau’s classic dishes including his signature tender frog legs with parsley The restaurant also features a wine cellar holding some 15,000 bottles from the region A wood-paneled salon tucked into a corner past the lobby becomes our space of choice to revel in a glass of bourgogne by the fireplace. The property also has a four-story, 16,000-square-foot spa called La Villa Loiseau des Sens and showers that complete its theme as a wellness luxury retreat for travelers The entire Bernard Loiseau brand remains a family affair with Dominique and Bernard’s daughter Berangere as the vice president and daughter Blanche as part of the kitchen team at La Cote d’Or whose 35 acres of vines in Marsannay-la-Côte Pataille has a fierce passion for Marsannay terroir and likes to take his time with the grapes Vinifications are natural and with as little intervention as possible at bottling Burgundy is often referred to as the home of chardonnay but Pataille was one of the first to focus on single vineyard aligotés floral notes that when done right (as Pataille does) reveals a nuttiness and herbal brightness with undeniable finesse “The sheer joy of Sylvain’s connection to the land He is the Harry Potter of Marsannay,” says Peter Wasserman of Becky Wasserman & Co. which exports Pataille along with other terroir-driven During our tasting in an underground cave on one of Beaune’s narrow streets it’s hard to peel ourselves away from the sips of Marsannay rosé Fleur de Pinot and Peter Wasserman’s humor He carries the legacy of his late mother Becky—a pivotal figure in the introduction of Burgundy wines to the United States and world—with an authenticity of which she would surely be proud A 15-minute drive leads us to our next tasting at Domaine Dujac we gaze at the manicured vineyards that sprawl before us like kids in a candy store we’re really here,” is uttered often and emphatically each time is located in the village of Morey-Saint-Denis in the Côte d’Or Vintages are grown in Burgundy’s Côte de Nuits and Côte de Beaune Most of the wines undergo a maceration time of 12 days and grapes are fermented in whole bunches The price tag and small production mean none of the bottles will make their way home with me but the memory of that tasting will always remain A third stop veers from the former two visits in both its production size and easier accessibility. Maison La Jadot is a well-known wine house in the region with 528 acres of vineyards producing everything from chablis to beaujolais My favorite of the afternoon is the 2015 Louis Jadot Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru Chardonnay which leaves notes of subtle golden honey and minerality to linger in my mouth instead of the robust oak notes that often turn me off to the varietal With thirst now satiated, it’s time to eat. Ma Cuisine in Beune’s city center is hardly unknown, but fortunately the tourists doesn’t deflate the hearty flavor of the beef bourguignon I devour and so it’s only right to order one more bottle as well and toast to a dream that became a delicious reality >> Next: This Sleepy French Town Is an Essential Pilgrimage for Wine Fans AFAR participates in affiliate marketing programs, which means we may earn a commission if you purchase an item featured on our site.© 2025 AFAR LLC Don't abandon Burgundy just yet — you only need to know where to look. Ethan Fixell has written about beer, wine, spirits, and coffee for over a decade. Formerly a beer director for New York City restaurants, he has also educated consumers at guided tastings for Astor Center, NYC Wine Company, Virtual With Us, and more. Expertise: beer, wine, spirits, and coffee. Experience: As a touring professional comedian, Ethan Fixell got his start in the beverage industry by writing a monthly column for Serious Eats called On The Beer Trail. From there, he went on to write for dozens of other publications, including Food & Wine, Tasting Table, Thrillist, Wine Enthusiast, Food Republic, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Men's Journal, Playboy, Saveur, Quartz, Travel + Leisure, Salon, VICE Munchies, and many more. Ethan later became the editor-in-chief of The Beer Necessities (a digital publication founded by Anheuser-Busch) and beer editor for About.com (now Dotdash). Ethan is a certified cicerone, certified specialist of wine, and certified specialist of spirits. Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world 2023 at 11:30 AM EDTBookmarkSaveLike other Burgundy fans who aren’t billionaires I’m always trying to discover where the region’s latest affordable gems are hiding Four-digit price tags for its most prized pinot noirs and chardonnays are now the norm will set you back $8,000 a bottle for the current vintage and that’s not even DRC’s most expensive wine covering roughly 100 hectares (250 acres) of vineyards spread evenly between Fixin itself and its southern neighbor The style of wine produced in Fixin and Brochon is not dissimilar to that of neighboring Gevrey-Chambertin (just to the south) being full flavored and well structured if not quite as complex or deeply perfumed The reputation of Fixin wines has yet to reach the heights of any of the other Côte de Nuits villages meaning that they do not command such high prices although the wines are Given that Fixin wines are often compared to those of more-prestigious communes they represent an affordable introduction to the red wines of Burgundy Around 95 percent of Fixin wine is red, produced from Pinot Noir. Legally, minor portions of Chardonnay, Pinot Blanc and Pinot Gris can also be included in these wines as long as the vines in question are interspersed within the Pinot Noir vineyards and do not amount to more than 15 percent of the harvest The appellation laws also cover the production of Fixin Blanc white wines. These are made almost exclusively from Chardonnay grapes although Pinot Blanc can also be included and account for the remaining five percent of the half-million bottles produced under the title each year While Fixin and Brochon do not have the same complexity of terroir as the communes further south in the Côte de Nuits there is a distinctly superior group of vineyards on the slopes immediately above Fixin the terrain rises quite rapidly from 290–350 meters (950 to 1150ft) well-drained sites with the limestone-rich soils so characteristic of Burgundy Here, the appellation has a small handful of premier cru sites, situated mostly around the western side of Fixin village itself. Wines from these sites may be labeled with the vineyard name appended to that of the village, and bear the title Fixin Premier Cru Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker €25.00Add to cart Anticipating the Maitre’s stained glass exhibition (scheduled for mid-September) the Chagall Museum in Nice is opening its doors to Cécile Bart This visual artist is interpreting this space in her own way reinventing architectural lines and light beams She was given a carte blanche to create an intimate dialogue with Marc Chagall’s art his stained-glass windows “La Création du Monde” opening up into the sky “Je suis bleue” is a feminized version of Chagall who identified himself with this colour so vivid Cécile Bart has designed her exhibition in the spirit of a dialogue with this artist of Belarusian origin inspired by his “Biblical Message” but still true to the paths of abstraction She is introducing us to large coloured screens with captivating film clips This peculiar choreography is harmonious with Chagall’s characters often suspended in the sky and weightless as if suggesting the immensity of the universe A visual artist (1911–2010) who has marked the modern sculpture universe Louise Bourgeois’ Spider is a new famous resident this year in the Monte-Carlo Casino gardens A version of this monumental sculpture called “Maman” is already part of the legendary Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and several great museums has been chosen by Hauser & Wirth to adorn their new exhibition space in Monaco sun-lit gallery in the iconic Hôtel de Paris neighbourhood According to its president Iwan Wirth: “When we were invited to contribute to the art scene renewal in Monaco we took it as an exceptional opportunity … Monaco has historically been a destination favoured by artists They were just as fascinated by the French Riviera as we are today” Louise Bourgeois is introducing us to a series of sculptures installations and paper objects evoking the “Maladie de l’Amour” (Lovesickness) The artist is questioning the couple’s relationship a slightly rotating aluminium sculpture created in 2004 is suspended right in the middle of the gallery This unique dancing abstract work is surely evoking the unforeseeable paths and disappointments of love A former rectory has become an exhibition space for a live creation favoured by such famous artists as Picasso couturiers Christian Dior and Yves Saint Laurent… The Photography Center has just opened its renovated building with the ambition of becoming a prestigious venue supporting creative and photographic experiences Its first guest is Isabel Muñoz from Spain distinguished by her very large formats and platinum prints question the relationship between the photographer and his model They invite us to explore the primary connection between humans and the earth Some have even referred to Isabel Muñoz as “a witch” the Spanish artist has definitely conquered audiences around the world by her unique and powerful images This exhibition features some forty photographs taken during her several long stays in Japan “This country has always been in my dreams particularly through the Buto dancers” Isabel Muñoz has forged links between Japan and the Mediterranean the light plays a vital role in both these cultures Her outlook on the land of the Rising Sun is astonishing and captivating Its subtle play of shadows is introducing us to her models’ intimate world This summer Aix-en-Provence is hosting an important artistic event The Art Centre at Hôtel de Caumont is featuring a superb selection by a French-Chinese artist Coming from a number of public and private collections watercolours and Chinese inks are witnessing the creative vitality of an artist who invented new pictorial spaces Zao Wou-Ki may well adopt his words “art does not reproduce the visible He is thus playing on contrasts: brilliance and darkness joy and mourning… This exhibition is taking us through his different phases bringing the artist to produce a painting of a rare plenitude where “It never gets dark” sun and lunar star merge in subtle colours A game of coloured masses represents a passage towards abstraction Chinese inks inspired by Henri Michaux revisit the ancestral traditions of the Middle Kingdom … For this Aix exhibition focused around light the choice of the south of France was obvious Zao Wou-Ki pays tribute to this great artist with a magnificent diptych and a set of watercolours that he painted in Luberon hosted by a most beautiful private mansion in Aix are thus introducing us to this unique universe symbolized by Asian refinement and tumultuous Western art history Ten exceptional paintings from a most prestigious Nahmad collection are awaiting you this summer at the Picasso Museum Nine masterpieces by Picasso and a painting by Rothko are enjoying the background of Nicolas de Staël’s famous “Concert” The scenography is proportionate to the exhibition’s scale A single painting per room captures the visitor’s eye This singular setting creates optimal conditions for art contemplation Each room thus serves as a frame for its painting that we observe in all its splendour and entirety While accumulation of objects in certain museums distracts us from the encounter introducing us to the “Women of Algiers” intimacy savouring the sensuality of “Lying woman with a blond wisp” or the “Kiss” This is an opportunity to meet Picasso at his home taking a fresh look at his brilliant journey Alberto Giacometti is universally known as one of the most prominent modern artists The Maeght Foundation owns an important collection of his creations including two versions of his masterpiece “The Walking Man” This summer the whole Giacometti family is in the spotlight The coming exhibition is featuring his father brothers and his father’s cousin… artists all of them Brought together for the first time in France the Giacometti family is introducing us to five artists with different The exhibition particularly evokes an intimate relationship with their native village Major sculptures and drawings by Alberto Giacometti archive photographs and various objects… a talented colourist painted landscapes of the Stampa Valley The younger brother Diego worked closely with his illustrious elder He distinguished himself by his bronze work creating the furniture and decorative elements for the Foundation’s café (benches was known as one of the most famous Swiss architects of the postwar period in 1952 he created the Swiss pavilion for the Venice Biennale And finally Giovanni’s cousin Augusto was a pioneer of painting he created “chromatic fantasies” paving the way for abstract compositions Five first names thus reveal one and the same prestigious family saga Stephen Brook and Gerard Basset OBE MW MS offer their summary of the Burgundy 2014 vintage growing season and their first view of the wines in bottle as the latest Burgundy en primeur campaign gets underway Chablis: 4.5/5Côte d'Or White: 5/5 Côte d'Or Red: 4/5 the Burgundy 2014 vintage produced many excellent wines Yet it was far from an easy growing season Conditions got off to a good start: spring was warm and dry leading to a fairly early budbreak and an uneventful flowering in early June throughout Burgundy causing huge damage in villages such as Volnay The renowned vineyards of Chassagne-Montrachet and Puligny-Montrachet largely escaped although some problems during flowering here did lower the crop but still there were growers who experienced considerable damage Not all vineyards within each commune were affected by hail but nevertheless many producers reported losses that averaged about half their usual crop; at Domaine Jacques Prieur feeble yields in damaged sites forced some growers to blend premier cru sites into a single blend rather than releasing them separately since there was too little wine to justify single-vineyard bottlings chilly conditions interspersed with a few hot days in July and worsening conditions during the first half of August sunny conditions continuing well into September giving the grapes a steady maturation and a harvest beginning generally from mid-September A north wind helped to keep the bunches healthy but there was some rot in the Pinot Noir that had to be dealt with in the vineyard or on sorting tables The sunny conditions meant there was no pressure to pick very quickly from late August there were localised infestations of the drosophila suzukii fruit fly that can penetrate damaged grapes especially those with soft skins such as Pinot Noir According to Grégory Patriat of Jean-Claude Boisset some growers panicked and picked too early which needs to be eliminated by careful sorting in the vineyard and winery and this was done by all top-flight domaines breezy first half of September resulted in delicious and fragrant wines with ageing potential At Domaine Alain Chavy in Puligny the grapes had natural sugars of 12.8% potential alcohol or more but even so there are some soft wines that may not age particularly well This means there will be a large range of enjoyable At the same time the great sites delivered excellent wines of minerality the whites gained in intensity and structure Both picking dates and the use of (or blocking of) malolactic fermentations will have affected individual house styles Yet they combine the richness of 2012 with the freshness of 2013 says Jean-Pierre Cornut at Château de la Maltroye in Chassagne are less voluptuous and rich than 2009 or 2012 there are many forward wines for drinking over the next eight to 10 years as well as superb wines from the top vineyards that should age well Thierry Brouin at LVMH-owned Clos des Lambrays in Morey-St-Denis believes 2014 is a great vintage that may be overlooked after all the praise already being heaped on the Burgundy 2015 crop Jacques Devauges at the neighbouring Clos de Tart was less concerned: ‘We’ve had a succession of small harvests coupled with high worldwide demand levels of extraction could be worryingly high There is huge stylistic variation among the red Côte de Beaune wines as they should be; others are dark and dense Written jointly by Stephen Brook and Gérard Basset OBE MW MS See 100 of the best Burgundy 2014 wines rated by Gerard Basset and Stephen Brook – including a selection offering great value – in the February issue of Decanter magazine. 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ceiling-mounted lighting features often take the form of serpentine waves drawing the eye upwards and making rooms look taller they simultaneously conceal unsightly ducts kriskadecor’s malleable partitions offer architects freedom to subdivide spaces in countless ways solid walls in the form of screens gently veiling views of adjoining spaces to dreamlike conversely animating them with bold art or graphics guest feature by dominic lutyens / architonic AXOR presents three bathroom concepts that are not merely places of function but destinations in themselves — sanctuaries of style Drivers in France come across many road signs mostly linked to traffic rules and speed limits some may spot a blue and white sign with the words ‘ville prudente’ when entering some communes.  whilst not one you need to learn from the Code de la route (French road safety laws) is related to driving.  It is awarded by the ‘Prévention Routière’ an association that promotes road safety across the country.  The association gives the signs to communes that have taken an active part in attempting to reduce road accidents in their borders.  Read more: Record number of driving fines in France confirmed in latest official report and currently around 530 communes have received it.  The signs themselves have between one and five blue hearts underneath the writing determining the level of the award received Communes can receive a sign for “road improvements prevention initiatives aimed at local residents and staff training,” said the association’s Regional Director in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Philippe Surot He made the comments during a recent awards ceremony where 11 communes in the region were given a sign.  Marsannay-la-Côte (Côte-d’Or) was one of these communes.  “We have reduced the speed limit in areas that have been drawn to our attention by local residents, particularly near schools,” said the commune’s mayor Jean-Michel Verpillot (quoted in France3) “This was a joint effort with the municipal police But we have also provided information to motorists,” he added.  Another recipient at the awards evening was the commune of Montfleur (Jura) Although the village has just 160 inhabitants a major secondary road passes through it.  “Some motorists avoid the chicanes we have installed to drive at 140 km/h right through the village,” said mayor Jean-Claude Nevers.  He decided to add a permanent ‘reward light’ on the road.  “‘The light is always red and only turns green when the driver or lorry has complied with the 30 km/h speed limit,” he said.  Read more: Photo: new road hazard for drivers in Brittany… a wallaby The awards ceremony took place in Gevrey-Chambertin a town of 3,000 people with two blue hearts on its road safety sign.  so “decided to focus on signage and equipment,” to reduce accidents 22 CCTV cameras are now in place throughout the commune to support fining reckless drivers.  “The idea is not to annoy people… Road safety cannot be fully achieved if there are no penalties that is part of the system,” said Mr Lucand.  The city is also building 3km of cycle paths If you believe your commune is worthy of a ‘ville prudente’ sign, you can visit the ‘ville prudente’ section of the association’s website to apply.  Read more: French village implements temporary road closures to protect frogs Family members argue the money was actually a gift Understanding the criteria and their durations for non-residents Lise Baussart destinationdijon.comVous en avez marre de la pluie car on a trouvé des activités pour se changer les idées à faire à Dijon il y a toujours plein d’activités à faire en extérieur voici une sélection d'activités pour vous redonner le sourire et vous permettre de vous évader Pour ajouter un peu de piquant à vos journées pluvieuses rendez-vous au "Bar à Moutardes" de la Moutarderie Fallot Vous pourrez y déguster une variété de moutardes toutes plus subtiles les unes que les autres tout en profitant des conseils culinaires de l’équipe 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