Tasted in Nuits St.Georges with Julien Montagnon & Martin Sylvestre, 10 May 2022. Jean-Luc & Paul Aegerter 49 rue Henri Challand 21700 Nuit-Saint-Georges Tel: +33 3 80 61 02 88 www.aegerter.fr More reports with Jean Luc & Paul Aegerter… Read More

Tasted in Nuits St.Georges with Paul Aergerter, 19 March 2021. Jean-Luc & Paul Aegerter 49 rue Henri Challand 21700 Nuit-Saint-Georges Tel: +33 3 80 61 02 88 www.aegerter.fr More reports with Jean Luc & Paul Aegerter I remember some… Read More

At the two extremes of Burgundy, the chardonnay has provided much of interest in 2018. There is much excellent Chablis to the north. To the south, bordering Beaujolais and wearing a little more depth and concentration, though still with super balance are the 2018 wines of Pouilly-Fuissé. Of course,… Read More

I couldn’t go to the producers, but some of their efforts could come to me – of course, with the vagaries of the Swiss Post Office and customs, so some stuff never made it it to Bern. The aim of these tastings was to look at the values, as I… Read More

It is surprising (to me!) that much less than one-third of the the production of Bourgogne Hautes Côtes is white. There is a little rosé too – in 2019 much more in Nuits with 35 hl than Beaune with 2 hl – though as you see, the total is only… Read More

Red wine accounts for more than 70% of the production in the Hautes Côtes. It is the Hautes Côtes de Beaune that bests the Hautes Côtes de Nuits in terms of production volumes – a little over 60:40 is the proportion in its favour. Historically the Hautes Côtes have been… Read More

Tasted blind, at the BIVB office in Chablis, 21 January 2020. As always, I find these blind tastings a great source of new names, of new producers whose wines I haven’t already explored. A number who made wines I rated highly in the 2017 vintage were profiled for… Read More