Hubert Talpain

Celebrate 90 years of Burgundy’s AOCs with Along Burgundy. Discover private wine tours, vineyard visits, and exclusive tastings across Burgundy’s most historic appellations. This is the 90th anniversary of France's first AOC wine appellations, created in 1936 to provide the national wine industry with a tool for protecting and promoting its terroirs. "Pommard 1920"      ‘The appellation d'origine is a common good, which in our appellation syndicates unites large, medium...

The animosity between Jeanne-Antoinette de Poisson and Louis Francois de Bourbon began from the moment that Madame de Pompadour was introduced as royal mistress.    The first real "sting" came about quite without intent. Madame de Pompadour frequently put on small theatrical performances in the king's private apartment to divert the melancholic king. The thing was that only fifteen people could be admitted due to the room's size. In 1747 - when these plays were well under way - the Prince de...

After a sunny summer among the vineyards, Burgundy is entering one of the most exciting times of the year: harvest season and the return...