Joliet – 2021
Tasted in Fixin with Camille & Bénigne Joliet, 19 May 2023. Domaine Joliet Manoir de la Perrière 21220 Fixin Tel: +33 3 80 52 47 85 www.domainejoliet.fr More reports on Domaine Joliet. Today was a chance to meet Camille, who has been working at the domaine since 2022 and who… Read More
Domaine Joliet – 2019
Tasted in Fixin with Bénigne Joliet, 04 August 2020. Domaine Joliet Manoir de la Perrière 21220 Fixin Tel: +33 3 80 52 47 85 www.domainejoliet.fr More reports on Domaine Joliet. Although I have visited to taste… Read More
Profile: Domaine Joliet (Fixin)
Drive into Fixin, and even before you realise that it’s exactly the address you’re looking for, your eyes are drawn to a large old building at the top of the hill – it seems to keep guard over the whole village, this is the Manoir de la Perrière. Constructed… Read More
lessons in luzerne…
What a beautiful night on Saturday in Luzerne! Great company and food, excellent wines – all blind – sat outside in the shadow of Pilatus. To start, two whites: The first was ripe and had both depth and concentration – a little fat to the texture too. The… Read More
a nine bottle evening
With beouf bourguignone, a really interesting set of wines – the Thomas Frères wines coming from an undisturbed Zürich cellar. Wines were served blind… 1966 Thomas Frères, Tastevinage Cote de Nuits Villages Pronounced, wild aromatics – you have the impression that this could be a young ‘natural’ wine. The… Read More
Editorial
Some Respite? 2006 & 2007 – Whilst the whites will be easy to buy*, relatively consistent and good+ all-round, these vintages should be great red vintages for the connoisseurs – less bling (I decided that I liked that typo and would keep it) sorry, blind buying. You will have… Read More