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tollot-beaut 2004 savigny 1er champ-chevrey
Always a favourite cuvée of mine, but that’s not quite enough to overcome the vintage imperfection – not yet anyway.
2004 Tollot-Beaut, Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Champ-Chevery
Medium colour. A clear, if not stomach churning, vintage character, below is a deep, dark and slightly sweet fruit base. The combination of acidity and faintly astringent tannin [...]
2002 bouchard père beaune 1er grèves de l’enfant jesus
The first from this 6-pack, bought on release.
2002 Bouchard Père et Fils, Beaune 1er Grèves l’Enfant Jesus
Medium, medium-plus colour. The nose is very fine; there’s latent oak that brings a little espresso macchiato into the equation but essentially it’s about a fresh, dark red fruit and occasional faint whiffs of bacon. Smooth, [...]
ancient dupes…
Browsing 137 years of Popular Science magazine, I’m reminded that it’s quite a while since my ‘dupes revisited‘ post. Just to show that all is not new under the sun:
All those years years of Popular Science magazine’s scientific scoops (!) are now freely available online here.
The format is similar to Google [...]
alex gambal 2007 chambolle-musigny 1er les charmes
2007 Alex Gambal, Chambolle-Musigny 1er Les Charmes
Medium, medium-plus colour. The nose shows a little savoury smokiness over a deeper, but tighter fruit core. In the mouth, your first impression is of something not entirely substantial, yet there is an extension into the the finish and width in the mid-palate that suggests much [...]
bordeaux/burgundy – a vintage rivalry, jean-robert pitte (2008)
It was while visiting Aubert de Villaine way back in 2005 that he recommended this book to me, and despite it only (at that time) being available in French, I picked up a copy. It’s probably a measure of my French niveau that I recollect scarcely a thing – except for a quote to [...]
p.ox denial…
Producers in denial as blight leaves some French white wines ‘almost undrinkable’
Hardly a major exposé, but the generalist wine-writing cliques are slowly catching-on…
offer of the day – clos du tart 2008…
LA FORGE DE TART 2008 75cl 129.00 (159.80 for the 2007) Swiss Francs
CLOS DE TART Grand Cru 2008 75cl 249.00 (299.50)
CLOS DE TART Grand Cru 2008 150cl 528.00 (629.00)
CLOS DE TART Grand Cru 2008 300cl 1196.00 (1398.00)
The offers are coming in, thick-and-fast.
A modest reduction versus 2007 here. I think [...]
lambrays 2004 morey st.denis les loups
My first 2004 for a while – I have another to try but I think that this will be a short campaign.
2004 Lambrays, Morey St.Denis 1er Les Loups
Medium colour. The nose is heavy with the volatile 2004 taint, below is an interesting coffee edge though I can’t quite get to the fruit. [...]
tim atkin and bras…
Well I expect that I have a unique subject title in the internet world – today at least…
Maybe you will recall that I bemoaned the ‘loss’ of Tim Atkin (he of the broad grin) to ‘newspaper’ (everything is anyway on the internet) writing. Well he got a new job pretty quickly with ‘The Times’. [...]
2005 marc morey chassagne morgeot
2005 Morey Marc, Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Morgeot
A half bottle. Medium, medium-plus yellow colour. A hint of sulfur, but otherwise soft yet penetrating notes of butterscotch and cream over ripe but very pretty fruits. Excellent intensity with slowly penetrating acidity, this is both rich and powerful. In some ways it’s a little over [...]
offer of the day – comte georges de vogüé 2008
CHAMBOLLE-MUSIGNY 2008 75cl 89.50 (Swiss Francs)
CHAMBOLLE-MUSIGNY 1er cru 2008 75cl 149.00
CHAMBOLLE-MUSIGNY Les Amoureuses 2008 75cl 318.00
BONNES-MARES 2008 75cl 318.00
MUSIGNY Vieilles Vignes 2008 75cl 399.00
There seems to be a small rush of offers right now!
I will admit to having bought all (except Amoureuses, it’s too rare) these wines for a number of vintages, i.e. [...]
desert island wine, miles lambert-gócs (2007)
After I exhibited something approaching enthusiasm for ‘Is this bottle Corked?‘ a reader suggested that I might like to try this tome, so…
Desert Island Wine, is a paperback of 190 pages, the back page boilerplate starting with:
Who says wine is no laughing matter? No such thing as a wine book to take to the beach? [...]
