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Luxury hospitality group Belmond, which was bought by LVMH last year, has launched a luxury cruise through Burgundy that includes a visit to Clos Vougeot.

Demand for Armand Rousseau, Domaine de la Romanée-Conti and other top Burgundy drove Sotheby’s last wine sale of the summer to over £1 million.

Six magnums of Henri Jayer’s 1996 Vosne-Romanée Cros Parantoux topped Bonhams’ London sale at £97,600.

The Boisset family has acquired Maison Alex Gambal in Burgundy in a deal that is expected to be completed this September.

The Bourgogne Wine Board has appointed Olivier Le Roy as director of the cultural initiative which will welcome visitors in Beaune, Chablis, and Mâcon.

Anne Le Naour has been appointed as the new director of Credit Agricole’s wine division, taking over from Thierry Budin.

Fine and rare labels will be much in evidence at Sotheby’s sale in London next week, with parcels of first growths and grand cru Burgundy taking pride of place in the line-up.

Thieves have stolen over 1,000 bottles, many of them grand cru, worth more than £100,000 from Domaine Forey in Burgundy.

The white wine harvest in Burgundy this year may be the one of the biggest ever recorded, with bumper crops in the Maconnais and Chablis, according to Louis Fabrice Latour.

Two sales held by Sotheby’s in London this week netted a combined £2,785,385, underpinned by Bordeaux and Burgundy but with a case of rare Port trumping Petrus and Domaine de la Romanée-Conti to be the auction’s highest-selling lot.

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