White Burgundy is left as the greatest still, dry white wine grown anywhere in the world. Its qualities are essentially savoury ones.The white burgundy's are fresh and refreshing and enticing, the greatest is rich and sappy, dry without exception, but fat with flavour.Its perfume can have a fruitness, a really peach or apricot like quality, without being sweet. It can be either soft and succulent or hard and strong.

Burgundy is in some ways the most terroir-oriented region in France; immense attention is paid to the area of origin, and in which of the region's 400 types of soil a wine's grapes are grown. As opposed to Bordeaux, where classifications are producer-driven and awarded to individual chateaux, Burgundy classifications are geographically-focused. A specific vineyard or region will bear a given classification, regardless of the wine's producer. This focus is reflected on the wine's labels, where appellations are most prominent and producers' names often appear at the bottom in much smaller text.

The main levels in the Burgundy classifications, in descending order of quality, are: Grand crus, Premier crus, village appellations, and finally regional appellations.