Jean Fournier – 2021
Tasted in Marsannay-la-Côte with Laurent Fournier, 05 July 2023. Domaine Jean Fournier 29, rue du Château 21160 Marsannay-la-Côte Tel: +33 3 80 52 24 38 More reports with Domaine Jean Fournier Laurent on 2023 – so far: “We are leaf thinning to help reduce the oïdium, the rain isn’t a… Read More
Jean Fournier – 2020
Tasted in Marsannay-la-Côte with Laurent Fournier, 18 November, 2021. Domaine Jean Fournier 29, rue du Château 21160 Marsannay-la-Côte Tel: +33 3 80 52 24 38 More reports with Domaine Jean Fournier Laurent on 2020: “There’s nothing in bottle just now. The 2020… Read More
Jean Fournier – 2019
Tasted in Marsannay-la-Côte with Laurent Fournier, 19 March, 2021. Domaine Jean Fournier 29, rue du Château 21160 Marsannay-la-Côte Tel: +33 3 80 52 24 38 More reports with Domaine Jean Fournier Laurent on 2019: “Not a lot of the 2019s have been… Read More
Jean Fournier – 2017
Tasted in Marsannay-la-Côte with Laurent Fournier, 30 April, 2019. Domaine Jean Fournier 29, rue du Château 21160 Marsannay-la-Côte Tel: +33 3 80 52 24 38 Laurent on 2017: “Versus previous years, 2017 was a very easy vintage; no frost, no mildew, no hail etcetera. An obvious… Read More
Jean Fournier 2012
Tasted in Marsannay with Laurent Fournier, 28 April, 2014. Domaine Jean FOURNIER 29, rue du Château 21160 Marsannay-la-Côte +33 3 80 52 24 38+33 3 80 52… Read More
Les Aligoteurs
Tasted in Flagey-Echézeaux, 23 April 2018. Image courtesy https://aligoteurs.com/ I’ve never tasted anything in Flagey before – so why not over 70 Aligotés? The rain came on this particular Monday, and with it, only 16°C. Considering that the weekend had been over 25° then we… Read More
the trophy winners – burgundy’s young talents of the 2015 vintage!
This year, I was more than honoured to be asked to be a judge at the blind tastings to determine the young winemaking talents of Burgundy, 2017. Lots of new names and great wines here for you. The Groupe des Jeunes Professionels de la Vigne were running their event for… Read More
2014 Marsannay (plus more)
Tasted in Gevrey-Chambertin with Bernard Bouvier, Isabelle Collotte, Laurent Fournier, Sylvain Pataille and Jean-François Guyard. For me, and for a long time, Marsannay was more about producers and just a few lieu-dits (apparently there are 69 producers of Marsannay) and that’s because it’s a big and complicated… Read More
Bourgogne Rosés for summer 2016 – Pinot vs Gamay
There were two tastings in 3 days – 06+08 June 2016 – the first in Beaune and the second in Villefranche (Beaujolais). Who would come out on top – northern Burgundy or southern Burgndy? I looked at the current commercial vintage, which of-course largely means 2015 – though there are… Read More