Burgundy Wine Classification

Although Bordeaux is traditionally the main market for fine wine investors, Burgundy and more specifically Domaine de La Romanee Conti (DRC), can potentially provide great opportunities to fine wine investors to balance their portfolio.

The Burgundy fine wine market is long-established and has enjoyed a great demand from global consumers since as far as the 13th century.

The Burgundy market is more fragmented and its classification may be less comprehensive when first approached for investors. As opposed to Bordeaux, where classifications are producer-driven and awarded to individual chateaux, Burgundy classifications are geographically-focused.

Investing in Burgundy fine wines is less complicated it may sound. As for the Bordeaux fine wine market most fine wine investors tend to focus on the very top of Burgundy’s official classification i.e. Grand Crus, targeting essentially Domaine de la Romanee Conti (DRC), which is including the following exceptional Grand Crus:

• Romanee-Conti, DRC
• La Tache, DRC
• Richebourg, DRC
• Romanee-Saint-Vivant, DRC
• Grands Echezeaux, DRC
• Echezeaux, DRC
• Montrachet, DRC

Not only do these ‘boutique’ labels enjoy a growing global demand, their production is also very small. Label such as Romanee-Conti, DRC produces an average of 500 cases per annum. This is an exceptionally low production when compared to Lafite Rothschild, a prestigious Bordeaux domain renown to push a very limited production in the market averaging 15,000 to 20,000 cases per annum.

This is indeed ideal for the ‘supply and demand’ principle on which the fine wine market relies.

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*For Burgundy wine only. This is not the only classification available for French wines and all wines listed in this classification may not be considered as investment grade wines.