Jean-Jacques Confuron – 2019
Tasted in Premeaux with Alain Meunier, pictured with Sophie, 23 November 2020. Domaine Jean-Jacques Confuron “Les Vignottes” 21700 Premeaux-Prissey Tel: +33 3 80 62 31 08 http://www.jjconfuron.com/ More reports for Domaine Jean-Jacques Confuron. Alain on 2020: “No frost, also not… Read More
Profile: Domaine Jean-Jacques Confuron (Nuits)
Domaine Jean-Jacques Confuron is easily located – it’s the first small collection of buildings on your right-hand side as you enter Premeaux from the south, direction Nuits St.Georges – sitting at the top of the ‘hill’ before the road dips down to the centre of the village. Enter the… Read More
a quiet night among the books…
Just a quiet evening among the books of Athenaeum in Beaune tonight. Fred Ménager was cooking (with his team) plus multiple bottles of 2008, mainly in magnum, from Christian Clerget, Jean-Jacques Confuron, Vincent Dureuil-Janthial, Michel Lafarge, Hubert Lamy, Jean Louis et Andrée Trapet, Tollot-Beaut, Vitteaut-Alberti and Guiseppe-Rinaldi. The wines were… Read More
Georges Noellat – 2013
Tasted in Vosne with Joséphine Duffau-Lagarrosse (yes, from Bordeaux!) 26th November, 2014. Domaine Georges Noëllat 1 Rue des Chaumes 21700 Vosne-Romanée Tel: +33 3 80 61 11 03 Maxime Cheurlin was elsewhere so we were lucky enough to be hosted by Joséphine, who is working at Georges… Read More
New Zealand’s Rippon Pinot Noir Has Burgundy Pedigree
Nick Mills, who had picked up French in travels to France as a child with his winegrower father, Rolfe Mills, returned to Burgundy after a short-lived, injury-ending career as a world-class snow skier. He started as a cellar rat at Domaine Jean-Jacques Confuron, and stayed in Burgundy from 1998 to… Read More
Nuits Saint Georges: Village Profile
Despite having no Grand Crus to call its own, Nuits appended the name of its most important vineyard, Les St.Georges, on the 10th May 1892 to become Nuits-Saint-Georges – before that it was described as Nuits-sous-Beaune. When the railway came in 1849 the station here was… Read More