For many, the mention of Burgundy evokes sensual memories of bottles of wine--earthy, complex and sublime--and meals and evenings spent among friends. But nostalgia aside, there's another Burgundy that opened herself up to us on a recent venture into the wooded hills and valleys of the Morvan (http://www.e-margaux.com/en/gallery/burgundy/morvan/index.htm), a rural land that stretches between Clamecy, Vézelay and Avallon in the north and Charollais and Autun in the south.

Michel Winthrop, our eccentric Paris-based ... (more)