We drank this wine in a tiny village on the N151 just south of Auxerre. Irancy is one of my favourite wines and Franck GIVAUDIN is a really good producer. You will not be disappointed if you find a bottle of this wine as it has all the regional character that you expect from an Irancy. It has a taste of strawberries and raspberries and an air of minerals.
The wine is elegant and matches Burgundian cuisine really well: we drank it with Bavette steak but it will go down just as well with roast chicken or game. the 2011 can be drunk now or kept to improve in the bottle for a few years longer.
http://www.irancy.org/vigneron.php?id_vigneron=8
I love drinking wines when I am in their actual region of production. This is why, whenever I travel in the major wine producing countries of Europe I order wine that is produced in the locality if possible.
I even like Retsina when I am Greece even though I cannot stomach it in the UK.
In the UK it is difficult to find a locally produced wine of any quality at a reasonable price. This means that we have to look for wines from all over the world to go with our food - this is adequate compensation provided that I am not forced to drink Retsina.
