For me, the most ‘faulty’ village in this hot year – most Chambolles were very dark coloured, half of them stewed, bretty and sometimes volatile – this one passed the test !!

2018 Digioia-Royer, Chambolle-Musigny 1er Les Groseilles
Deeply coloured, but still transparent. A nose of deep, dark berries and a little graphite. Large in scale and with vibrantly energetic flavour. This is so long and intense, it’s really quite something! That long flavour is only half good today, the fruit is clean – and silky too – but there’s an accompanying edge that’s mineral and a little harder, potentially a little reductive. This latter part will take 2-3 years to resolve – or maybe it will improve in the glass? Yes it does, but only modestly. This wine drank well over 3 days – it has great stability !! So very 2018, which some of you will love, and others not. I’d much rather have something ‘classic’ but this still offers delicious drinking…
Rebuy – Yes with much reflection…

And a new corkscrew?

I’ve been using a Pulltex for over 10 years now – apart from some broken corks, it works well.

Now Pulltex have this intriguing new model – a Durand style – but for the cost of a of a Temu knockoff! Maybe it’s just a Pulltex knockoff !!

I need more time to improve my operational efficiency with it, before I deploy it on old corks – but for €23 (Athenaeum, Beaune) it seems like it could be a winner. My (current) ham-fistendness means it’s hard to offer critique at this stage, only that the worm when it comes out of the bottom of the cork, ejects a small piece of the cork into the wine – at least for this bottle’s young, robust cork…