(Wine-Searcher) - We continue our look at the world's most popular wines with a visit to wine's most hallowed ground.

Speak of dream wines and the great names of Bordeaux, Barolo and Napa will often spring to mind but, for wines you can only dream about, Burgundy is in a class of its own.

Small production and high demand have pushed Burgundy's wines, some of the finest expressions of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay on earth, into a rarefied stratosphere of their own, where thousands of dollars change hands for single bottles that most of us will never get to try.