All Change on the Côte-d'Or?

The Ouche Valley, in the Côte d’Or department of eastern France – a name synonymous with fine wines – was the destination of this year’s summer holiday. A bucolic landscape surrounded my holiday rental, given to agriculture, rather than viticulture, yet a mere twenty minutes’ drive from the Hautes-Côtes de Beaune. I wanted to view vinous matters from a distance, while casting my mind back to those first visits to Burgundy that started in the early 1980s when I was living in Switzerland, close to Lake Geneva.