La Pirolette – 2020
Tasted in St.Amour with Grégory Barbet, 17 February 2022. Domaine de la Pirolette Le Bourg 71570 St.Amour Bellevue Tel: +33 6 75 06 22 73 domainedelapirolette.com More reports with Domaine de la Pirolette Grégory on 2021: “In 21 the volume is not bad – we have 45 hl/ha on average,… Read More
La Pirolette – 2019
Tasted in St.Amour with Grégory Barbet, 23 February 2021 – his birthday. Domaine de la Pirolette Le Bourg 71570 St.Amour Bellevue Tel: +33 6 75 06 22 73 domainedelapirolette.com More reports for Domaine de la Pirolette “Market is good for the wines here – thanks to the UK,” says Grégory. Read More
La Pirolette – 2018
Visited in St.Amour with Grégory Barbet, 13 February 2020. Domaine de la Pirolette Le Bourg 71570 St.Amour Bellevue Tel: +33 6 75 06 22 73 domainedelapirolette.com More reports for Domaine de la Pirolette Grégory on 2019: “A… Read More
La Pirolette – 2017
Visited in St.Amour with Grégory Barbet, 14 February 2019. Domaine de la Pirolette Le Bourg 71570 St.Amour Bellevue Tel: +33 6 75 06 22 73 domainedelapirolette.com Grégory on 2018: “2018 a vintage that was practically perfect – though it was a… Read More
La Pirolette – 2016
Visited in St.Amour with Virginie Fournier (and her friend, right), 09 February 2018. Domaine de la Pirolette Le Bourg 71570 St.Amour Bellevue Tel: +33 6 75 06 22 73 domainedelapirolette.com Virginie on 2016 and 2017: “In 2016 we saw lots of rain… Read More
Profile: Domaine de la Pirolette (St.Amour)
Visited in St.Amour with Virginie Fournier and Grégory Barbet, 13 July 2017 This is something of a placeholder as I managed to get a tour of their ‘in-progress’ facility with a dinner too. So no real note-taking, particularly for wines as we were sat at the dinner table! But Lots… Read More
2018 Beaujolais: ‘This time the weather was with us!‘
2018 was a year with an early harvest and not much, but regular, rain after the 15th June – so the vines didn’t suffer from drought. It was ‘mainly’ too dry for the maladies in the summer, though. 2018 is the first vintage for a number of… 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
Saint Amour: Village Profile
Saint Amour Basics: AOC – Since February 1946 AOC Area – 320 hectares Allowed Yields – 58 Hl/ha Allowed Colours – Red only (White bottled as Beaujolais Blanc) Allowed Grapes – Gamay Noir with up to a maximum of 15% ‘others’ including: Aligoté,… Read More
