48 hours in Burgundy?
I have a work trip to Paris coming up and it looks like I'll have a window where I can get out of town before coming home. I have done WSET3 and FWS, so intermediate French wine knowledge, but Burgundy is just hard for me to figure out. It has my favourite expressions of both Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, but where I live you have relatively limited selection of producers and its too expensive for me to take too many chances on - I can and will spend $100 or more for a bottle from time to time, especially for my cellar, but I really want those bottles to be spectacular when I open them. I can do that with confidence in Bordeaux or with Barolos and Brunellos, but Burgundy...
So I was thinking of heading to Beaune or something for a couple days. Does anybody have any advice on what a great way to get some first-hand understanding of the region is with a little trip like that? I can book a tour of course, but how to pick the 4 or so wineries? Would it be better to stay in town and go to tasting rooms? Would Dijon be better for something like that? Does anybody know any private or semiprivate masterclasses?
In terms of my own preferences, for pinot noir I typically prefer fruit and floral over spice and mineral. For Chardonnay I like malo and well-integrated oak over the leaner more mineral style I see so often these days. I love it when Chard has notes of caramel or butterscotch on the finish. But for both I prize complexity and length above all - wines that change throughout the sip and in the glass are the ones I tend to remember most fondly. I've had plenty of 1e Cru wines over the years but I'm not sure I've ever had a GC.
Any and all advice is welcome. If 48 hours is too short to be worth it I can consider going somewhere else but I have been to the Loire, Bordeaux and the Southern Rhone before and feel pretty confident about those areas. I also speak fluent French so I'm not limited to just Anglo-friendly experiences.