2019 croix montjoie vézelay
We picked up a few of these at the domaine on Saturday: 2019 La Croix Montjoie, Vézelay ‘l’élégante‘ This 2019 sports an impressively long diam origine. Well done! A young yellow-gold colour. The nose has concentration and an almost smoky whiff of clean, chalky, minerality –… Read More
28 blind-tasted Northern Burgundy 2020s
All tasted, as is the habit, blind – the identities only revealed for the photos – after the notes were written. Unfortunately, no ‘Bravo / Great Wines’ but I did highlight the modest number that I found excellent. As noted in my January report there’s a high percentage of wines… Read More
some missing wines
Well, there have been a few that I haven’t mentioned. Starting with a cha-cha-cha phase that was followed with a bit more Cha! Chambollow, Chiroubles, Chenas and then more from Chambolle: First up was Pauline Passot’s 2019 Chiroubles Claudius Lighter colour than I remember –… Read More
2019 Irancy – 40 wines tasted blind
A range of wines tasted 29 April 2021. Moved to the May report as it includes the visits to a trio of very impressive new names for this appellation who provided great wines for this tasting. Summarising 2019 was a middling volume vintage (see below) in an area… Read More
basking in the sun part 2… the 2021 frost…
Basking in the sun… Part 1 It’s still much too early to properly take stock* other than to say that the frost of April 2021 – a month not yet over – was both a rare and a severely yield-limiting event. You will have to go back… Read More
05-Sep-20 – Vézelay & a harvest update from there…
Vézelay Unlike Chablis, where they are about 90% of the way through harvesting, in Vézelay there has been some harvesting but not much – Sophie Woillez of Domaine La Croix Montjoie explained “The maturities are really all over the place – we were expecting such an early… Read More
a bottle or two…
Just to show that I haven’t been ignoring my responsibilities these last couple of weeks – here’s the majority of bottles pulled from my own cellar in that time. I hold almost no notes in my head, but the basic impressions remain: The Armand Volnay was 2017, actually a… Read More
2017 – Femmes et Vins
A gathering of a large number of the Femmes et Vins group of producers for their popular Exception’Elles tasting. This time in the Château de Montchat (right) in Lyon. Each of the producers was showing 4 wines, some even finishing with a contribution that was ‘a little’ older! 22 producers… Read More
2017 Irancy
Time to take a better look at how Irancy fared in 2017. Assembled were samples, tasted blind, in Chablis, 18 March 2017 – the organising of the sampling was kindly done by the BIVB Chablis. In 2017 we are back close to a full yield;… Read More