La Paulée de New York 2020: Era-defining
By Jordan Mackay | April 12 2021
La Paulee 2020. All photography courtesy of La Paulée
The 20th anniversary edition of the celebration of Burgundy proved to be a spectacular occasion
From only one year out, reflecting on La Paulée de New York 2020 feels like gazing back into another era. As it always does, the great celebration of Burgundy took place at various venues across the Big Apple in the chilly, windblown first week of March. But this first week of March also happened to be the last week of a particular epoch in world history. Were those of us merrily clinking glasses of the world’s greatest Pinot Noir and Chardonnay akin to the merrymakers on the decks of the
Era-defining
Jordan Mackay recalls the spectacular 20th anniversary edition of the celebration of Burgundy and previews this year’s online Paulée Mondiale, March 10–21
From only one year out, reflecting on La Paulée de New York 2020 feels like gazing back into another era. As it always does, the great celebration of Burgundy took place at various venues across the Big Apple in the chilly, windblown first week of March. But this first week of March also happened to be the last week of a particular epoch in world history. Were those of us merrily clinking glasses of the world’s greatest Pinot Noir and Chardonnay akin to the merrymakers on the decks of the
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Is it goegraphy or architecture that draws younger oenophiles to bordeoux?
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It’s said that people tend to drift further to the right as they age. In reading, the trend is away from fiction towards history, biography and so on. In wine the axiom is that we begin by loving bordeaux, then graduate to an appreciation of burgundy. It’s a shift that can make a right old mess of someone’s careful cellar plan. Many who find themselves in a position to start collecting when still relatively young reach middle age with a splendid portfolio of bordeaux and almost no burgundy – just as they have decided that the latter is, after all, quite worth drinking.