Grégoire Hoppenot – 2021
Tasted with Grégoire Hoppenot, this year in sunny ‘Les Roches,’ 27 February 2023. Domaine Grégoire Hoppenot Les Roches 69820 Fleurie Tel : +33 7 85 60 02 01 www.domainehoppenot.com/ More reports with Domaine Grégoire Hoppenot Grégoire on 2022: “2022’s my first vintage all organic. Vines that haven’t seen a plough… Read More
Grégoire Hoppenot – 2020
Tasted with Grégoire Hoppenot, this year in sunny ‘Les Roches,’ 23 February 2022. Domaine Grégoire Hoppenot Les Roches 69820 Fleurie Tel : +33 7 85 60 02 01 www.domainehoppenot.com/ More reports with Domaine Grégoire Hoppenot Grégoire on 2021: “Of course, it depends on the sector – in the Bas de… Read More
Grégoire Hoppenot – 2019
Tasted with Grégoire Hoppenot, this year in sunny ‘Les Roches,’ 24 February 2021. Domaine Grégoire Hoppenot Les Roches 69820 Fleurie Tel : +33 7 85 60 02 01 www.domainehoppenot.com/ More reports for Domaine Grégoire Hoppenot Grégoire on… Read More
Grégoire Hoppenot – 2018
Tasted with Grégoire Hoppenot, looking happy in the driving rain of ‘Les Roches,’ 19 February 2020. Domaine Grégoire Hoppenot Les Roches 69820 Fleurie Tel : +33 7 85 60 02 01 www.domainehoppenot.com/ More reports for Domaine Grégoire Hoppenot… Read More
Not a good day in Beaujolais…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jérôme Lacondemine (@jerome.lacondemine) Yesterday brought hail to Beaujolais. You can look through Jerome’s images above. This is already the third time that Beaujolais has experienced hail –… Read More
Chignard – 2020
Tasted in Fleurie with Cédric Chignard, 10 February 2022. Domaine Chignard Le Point du Jour 69820 Fleurie Tel: +33 4 74 04 11 87 www.domaine-chignard.fr A family domaine at Point du Jour – an area that sits below Grégoire Hoppenot’s domaine but above the domaine of Alain Coudert of Clos… 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
Trenel – 2015
Tasted in Charnay-lès-Mâcon with Nicolas Dietrich and Grégoire Hoppenot, 17 February 2017. Maison Trenel Chemin de Buèry 71850 Charnay-lès-Mâcon +33 3 85 34 48 20 www.trenel.fr On 2016: “We did some vinifications this year! “Of-course we have no vines – we buy grapes… Read More
Maison Trenel
Tasted in Charnay-lès-Mâcon with director Grégoire Hoppenot and winemaker Nicolas Dietrich, 12 April 2016. Maison Trenel Chemin de Buèry 71850 Charnay-lès-Mâcon +33 3 85 34 48 20 www.trenel.fr Trenel is an old maison from the 1920s, it was begun by restauranteur, Andre Trenel, in… Read More