Just the first two days in Beaune this week – so only 10 visits, but I’ll be back next week. I needed to be home to catch up on my growing mountain of typing! The 2018 reds remain highly variable – stylistically – whilst far from homogenous, the whites are significantly easier to appraise and position this year.
Onwards…
For the second vintage, the tasting panels of the Tastevinage have chosen their ‘majors’ for the year – their best wines tasted. This year they have reduced their list from the 20 that were chosen last year, to just 12 for this. There are some unexpected names in the list too!
For this ‘award,’ the twelve were chosen from the 1,215 wines that were submitted to blind taste in 2019:
The July 2019 issue of Burgundy-Report
It's always an modest mix of domaines in July due to French holidays, but imodest domaines none-the-less! Tasted are a blend of 2018 and 2017 wines – the latter now bottled, the former amazingly precocious:
First some (now) bottled 2017s in Chablis:
2017 Billaud-Simon
2017 Nathalie, Julie & Gilles Fèvre
2017 Pinson
A little more white, this time 2018:
2018 Jean Chartron (Puligny-Montrachet)
2018 Vincent Girardin (Meursault)
Now the reds – a mix of 2018 & 2017:
2017 Albert Morot (Beaune)
2018 Nicole Lamarche (Vosne-Romanée)
2018 & 2017 Jacques-Frederic Mugnier (Chambolle-Musigny)
2018 & 2017 Comte Georges de Vogüé (Chambolle-Musigny)
2018 Rossignol-Trapet (Gevrey-Chambertin)
Lastly, a little Jeroboam action, chez Faiveley:
A mix of Faiveley…
The June 2019 issue of Burgundy-Report
Tastings
A mix of organised tastings and tastings requested by me – over 140 wines:
2017 Meursault 'Climats'
2017 BIVB 'Cave Prestige' Value Whites
Femmes et Vins – in Lyon
Two domaines worth of Bouzeron
New names visited:
Profile: Amiot-Servelle (Chambolle)
Profile: Henri Darnat (Meursault)
Profile: Laurent Martray (Odenas)
Profile: Elodie Roy (Maranges)
Old names, visited:
Anne Parent – 2017
Ardhuy – 2017
Henri Rebourseau – 2017
Jean Vaudoisey – 2017
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