I’m a long way from a professional cricketer, but as I walked into the makeshift tasting area at the Le Kimmérdgien function centre in Chablis last Monday, it felt like the wine equivalent of walking out on the SCG turf for day one of the Sydney test.
Game on.
The sun was shining, the jetlag put on hold, and the teeth tooth-moussed. This was Day 1 of the Grand Jours de Bourgogne, a biannual, week-long wine industry tastefest that traverses the hills of Burgundy from Auxerre to the Mâconnais and everywhere in between. And before me, in a marquee packed with thirsty importateurs and cavistes, there were over 150 producers from Chablis, Irancy, Saint-Bris and an assortment of appellations from the north end of Burgundy.
G’day, let’s taste some wines.
The challenge, as I pointed out in this post last week, was just where to start. To my right, there was a huddle around the Domaine William Fevre table. To my left, another huddle around the wines of Samuel Billaud. So the question was, just how much of this Burgundy can I taste (and actually remember) in one day?
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