The Burgundy region may require a visit in order to fully understand its wines, as two journalists recently discovered.

In the Fort Worth Business Press, Renie and Sterling Steves described their experiences travelling through the areas where Corton-Charlemagne, Chambolle Musigny and Nuits St Georges are produced.

Burgundian wines often display a distinctive minerality due to the deep root systems in Pinot Noir vineyards, while vines are planted in a smaller area to encourage competition.

"Burgundy wine should not be dark," Jean-Pierre Renard of the Burgundy Wine School commented on the tour.

"If it is, the wine would be too harsh, tannic, and aggressive. It should be like silk - smooth, round, soft, and aromatic."

With the recent occurrence of the Glorious Twelfth, sommeliers in the UK have been pointing diners in the direction of red Burgundy as an accompaniment to grouse, according to the Wall Street Journal.