Château des Ravatys – 2019
Tasted in Saint-Lager with Séverine Rizzo, 23 February 2020 – pictured above also with Charline Bresse (right). Château des Ravatys 37 Ravatys 69220 Saint-Lager Tel: +33 4 74 66 80 35 www.chateaudesravatys.com More reports for Château des Ravatys You may… Read More
Beaujolais: the Pasteur Institute is selling the Château des Ravatys
I see this reported in the French press today: The Pasteur Institute, owner of the Château des Ravatys, has decided to sell the estate to help fund their research. Apparently, this follows long reflection and there is no link between this decision and the backdrop of… Read More
Château des Ravatys – 2018
Tasted in Saint-Lager with Axel Joubert, 18 February 2020. Château des Ravatys 37 Ravatys 69220 Saint-Lager Tel: +33 4 74 66 80 35 www.chateaudesravatys.com More reports for Château des Ravatys Axel on 2018 & 2019: “2019 was a hot year,… Read More
Profile: Château des Ravatys
Tasted in Saint-Lager with Axel Joubert, 09 May 2019. Château des Ravatys 37 Ravatys 69220 Saint-Lager Tel: +33 4 74 66 80 35 www.chateaudesravatys.com An impressive and unusual producer – it is effectively the Domaine de l’Institut Pasteur. This is a domaine that’s far too… Read More
Brouilly & Côte de Brouilly – 2017 (2016, 2015…)
Tasted in the offices of InterBeaujolais in Villefranche, 19 and 20 July 2018. What was already apparent last November when tasting 142 2017 Nouveaus, was confirmed by this early tasting of 2017s from Brouilly and Côte de Brouilly: Clearly 2017 is a ripe and concentrated vintage in… Read More
wines de la weekend – week 22 2021…
Friday/Saturday wines in Beaune – something required for the Sunday evening with mushroom risotto – I’m sure I’ll think of something 🙂 2017 Jean-Claude Ramonet, Mâcon-Péronne The last from my refrigerator in Beaune. Cork sealed Fresh, young colour. An equally fresh and young nose – even… Read More
a little beaujolais at the weekend…
Inserting a little extra juiciness into my weekend drinking… 2017 Château Ravatys, Côte de Brouilly Mathilde Courbe Deeply, deeply coloured. The nose has a darkness of fruit to match the colour – slightly alcoholic and a little liqueur but… Read More
Mainly Beaujolais – new names & many magnums
Bien Boire en Beaujolais 2019 afforded me to the opportunity of finding a few (relatively) new names – here are 10 of them. Where possible I mainly tasted their 2017s. The domaines were not all from Beaujolais – truth be told, there’s some very nice Mâconnais domaines too! Plus I… Read More
beaujolais – bbb – easy-pizay…
Looking towards the Côte de Brouilly from Pizay (Morgon) Tasted today at Bien-Boire-en-Beaujolais A quick-fire 43 bottles, starting with a section of new stuff from domaines that I largely don’t know, followed by some ‘old stuff’ from a mix of known and unknown domaines. I… Read More