By billn on July 19, 2011
A few new infos from the BIVB, plus Andrew Jefford falling under the spell of the Clos de Tart. How much wine, and where? The 2010 vintage has produced a total of 1,393,030 hectoliters in (greater) Burgundy (equivalent to 186 million bottles). This is 12.4% below the large 2009 crop and 6.5% below the 5-year average. Apart from 2003 (1.1 million hl), we must go back to 1997 to find a smaller volume (but at the time the vineyard area was ~12% less). The decrease compared to 2009, is particularly marked for red wines (-18.8%) and Crémant de Bourgogne (-13.2%), while the whites lost 8.7%. There was a sharp drop of about 20 to 25% on Villages and Grands Crus of the Côte d’Or (all [....]
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By billn on July 16, 2011
Well maybe not all the world, but after Decanter’s recent piece, Jay McInerny is at it in the Wall Street Journal too. Nothing new of-course, just that the story is now trickling out into a more mainstream audience – in a way it’s surprising it’s taken so long…
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By billn on July 5, 2011
The shock!!! It is fair to criticise how long it’s taken, but as they say ‘better late than never.’ I believe there’s a wider discussion of this subject in the magazine; unless you have a problem selling your white burgundy – and today it’s about managing expectations – this wider discussion in the ‘generalist’ wine press can only be helpful in finding a resolution(s) and better managing buyer’s expectations.
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By billn on July 2, 2011
Interesting and well argued points from Mike; it’s also worth working your way through the comments too. Mike has spent a few years in the ‘old world’ and it shows: It’s relatively rare to have somebody ‘US-based’ that can see the wider picture – the US market of middle-men and middle-middle-men is an island of profit potential that does service to neither the producer or buyer. Of-course it is easy to make fun of the Bordeaux ‘circus’. I did it myself yesterday having seen the EP 2010 price of Le Petit Cheval; in due deference I opened my last bottle of the 1998, bought for about a fifth of the new offer price – it’s my last bottle, and clearly I won’t be re-stocking. It [....]
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By billn on June 15, 2011
Some good quotes – particularly Lafon. You will remember I raved; the best cellar of the vintage…
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By billn on June 4, 2011
A nice article by Jancis. I was lucky enough to taste with Jim Clenenden at Domaine Ramonet last month – what a very nice guy. Turns out that in his youth he spent some time working and tasting his way through Burgundy…
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By billn on May 5, 2011
Andrew Jefford notes some differences in European ‘tannin management’ – in this case Burgundian DRC… (Sorry abot the awful decanter.com pop-ups!)
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By billn on April 5, 2011
A little Tuesday morning drama for you. Jeanine Gros, summed it up succinctly: “‘Wine’ and ‘poison,’ these two words do not belong in the same sentence.” Nice picture of Aubert too!
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By billn on March 11, 2011
As re-told by Alder Yarrow…
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By billn on March 1, 2011
A thoroughly absorbing series based on one interview by Brooklynguy – part three now available. A taster from part 1: JMF: My dad is one of the least diplomatic men you can meet, and the reputation of the wines suffered because of this. Fourrier wines had been imported to the United States for years, but then in 1986 Robert Parker came to visit my father and he said “You should use 100% new oak on your wines.” My father kicked him out of the cellar and said to him “My job is to make wine, your job is to taste it, not to tell me how to make it.” BG: That can’t have ended well. JMF: No, it didn’t. Parker wrote that Fourrier’s is the [....]
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By billn on February 19, 2011
To make matters worse, an ongoing and increasingly bad-tempered dispute developed between two of my fellow Masters of Wine about a hugely important question for burgundy lovers. Jancis in the FT Sounds like one of them needed a kick up the arse…
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By billn on February 17, 2011
The vine as a leitmotiv…
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