White Burgundy wines often offer peach, apple and lemon flavors plus a little hazelnut, honey and enough minerals to make the wine distinctive. The French spend a lot of time ensuring balance in their wines, seeking a harmonious relationship between fruit and acidity.

Burgundy is a region in eastern France that produces excellent red and white wines. Some of the better wine-producing areas in Burgundy are Chablis and Pouilly-Fuissé, both of which produce exquisite white wines from Chardonnay grapes.

The great Burgundies, both red and white, are un-blended wines made from a single grape variety. This again is a major difference from Bordeaux. The grapes used are:

Pinot Noir (red wines) Chardonnay (white wines)

Various other grape varieties are permitted within Burgundy, though these are never used in the great wines and can be considered as the "second rank" of grapes. They will appear in budget level bottlings and are increasingly common the further south you travel into the Côte Chalonnaise, Mâconnais and Beaujolais. Varieties include:

Gamay (red wines) Aligoté, Pinot Blanc (white wines)