Burgundy - discover a gourmet region's finest

We based ourselves in a small, economical hotel in the canal-side village of Chagny and spent a couple of long days wandering along thin ribbons of hilly roadway from one hamlet to the next, pulling into minuscule townships bearing names like Pommard, Volnay, Mersault, Puligny-Montrachet and discovering that our itinerary read like a wine list. We roamed at leisure, stopped to sip wine, poked around shops in ancient buildings, peered into petite bakeries and aromatic cheese shops, looked around beautiful churchyards and cemeteries, and stuck our heads into pretty little inns that have been open for at least 200 years.