Bourgogne Wine Study Tour with Robin Kick MW

October 8 – October 13, 2023

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YOUR 6 DAY BOURGOGNE IMMERSION STUDY TOUR INCLUDES: 

• Instruction throughout by renowned Bourgogne expert, journalist and wine educator Robin Kick MW
• All professional-level tours and tastings at top wine producers
• Services of a Tour Manager throughout, to provide customer service and logistics support
• 5 nights at 4-star Hotel Mercure Beaune Centre in Beaune, double occupancy
• Welcome drink with your tour instructor and tour manager
• 5 buffet breakfasts
• 4 gourmet lunches expertly matched with top-quality wines
• 2 gastronomic dinners, at Michelin 1-star restaurants, expertly matched with top-quality wines
• Deluxe, air-conditioned motor coach transportation throughout, including transfer on last day, with bottled water on-board
• The complete WSG New Bourgogne Master Level online course, including study manual, online webinars and online exam
• All hotel and other taxes, and gratuities for included restaurants

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MEET YOUR GUIDES

Your Guide: Robin Kick MW

• Robin is a Master of Wine who is presently based in Lugano, Switzerland, where she works as an independent wine consultant, wine judge, journalist and educator.
• With over 20 years of experience in the wine business, she has held a number of different positions including wine auction specialist for Christie’s in Beverly Hills, California and fine wine buyer for a pre-eminent London-based wine merchant with an award-winning Burgundy list.
• In 2014, after many years of study and a successful dissertation on whole cluster fermentation in Pinot Noir from the Côte d’Or, she became a Master of Wine.
  
  

Your Tour Manager : Mary Kirk, DipWSET

Assisting the instructor and making sure logistics run smoothly and that your needs are answered will be Mary Kirk.

Mary has been leading wine tours in France for 15 years and has been tour manager for WSG study trips or over 5 years. She is also a DipWSET, FWS and certified French Sommelier-Conseil.

She may be a familiar face to some of you because she also takes care of WSG members as our Community and Membership Manager.

Mary also teaches wine in Paris, specifically Sommellerie at Ferrandi Gastronomic school of Paris, as well as the FWS program at the Butler Academy in Paris. Her other activities include leading wine events and consulting in the French wine sector.

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5 reasons to join us in Bourgogne in 2023

• Discover the Bourgogne wine region with your instructor, Robin Kick MW
• Tour through Bourgogne and study the differences in Bourgogne wine styles. Discover the prestigious wines of the Côte de Beaune and Côte de Nuits, the bone-dry whites of Chablis in the cooler north as well as quality wines of the Mâconnais and Côtes Chalonnaise.
• Visit the most celebrated grand crus of Bourgogne. Study the terroirs of renowned vineyard sites and master the intricacies of the appellation and multi-tiered hierarchy system that classifies Bourgogne wines.
• Experience insider tastings with winemakers at top Bourgogne estates. Taste different vintages and experience the depth and remarkable quality of these distinguished wines.
• Lunch and dine in the region's best restaurants and discover the fine local Burgundian cuisine paired with the excellent local wines.

Travel with a group of wine students who are serious about wine, either as wine professionals or committed wine lovers. Share an educational, epicurean and unforgettable experience while mastering the world of Bordeaux. Trips are open to people from all countries, and are held in English.

I liked how the days were, for the most part, filled fully with wine activities. That's why I'm doing a WSG tour.

Robert Frank

Bourgogne Study Trip with Andrew Jefford, June 2018

At each domaine, I was impressed that we were hosted by typically either a domaine owner or winemaker.

Angelica Kwan

Bourgogne Study Trip with Andrew Jefford, June 2018

The meals on this trip were fabulous!! I also enjoyed the wineries that we attended, and we were all impressed with the level of knowledge of the host at each winery. Mary Kirk, our tour manager, was amazing.

Dana Lee

Bourgogne Study Trip with Andrew Jefford, June 2019

I appreciated the fact that our instructor made an effort to sit with every student and planned the menu and wine in advance for each meal. Mary (tour manager) is excellent. You really need to clone her.

Nicola Lee

Bourgogne Study Trip with Andrew Jefford, June 2019

The overall tour itinerary is great.

Grace Gu Qing

Bourgogne Study Trip with Andrew Jefford, June 2018

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Estates visited on previous Bourgogne Wine Tours

We would like to thank the following estates and individuals for having welcomed us and our students on past Bourgogne wine tours:

The Magic of Bourgogne

Bourgogne wines are some of the finest, most sought-after wines in the world. Bourgogne is a legendary wine region and a reference for Pinot Noir and Chardonnay wines. It is also a complex wine region with its numerous appellations and shared “climats” and is not always easy to understand. Travelling to Bourgogne allows you to grasp first-hand the meaning of terroir, the underlying concept which is the basis of its appellation system, and taste and savor many of these exceptional wines.

There are not 140 miles of distance between Chablis and the Mâconnais, but rather 45 million years of geological history represented in soils on and around escarpments, coombs, colluviums, fault lines, and bioherms. One visit to Bourgogne will make you a terroir-ist for the rest of your life.

The landscape is fractured; the vineyanted by extensive multiple-ownership. Bourgogne is both complicated and complex…and seeing is believing.

Bourgogne takes the broad French concept of terroir and winnows it down to something infinitesimally exacting within the framework of AOC law. There are approximately 500 AOCs, or designated zones of wine production, in France. One hundred and one of them are in Bourgogne alone. This northeastern section of France representing a 140 miles stretch from Chablis to the Mâconnais, is responsible for 6% of French wine production, yet represents 20% of all French AOCs.

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