Simonnet-Febvre – 2022
Tasted with Paul Espitalié in Chablis, on a very cold -8°C morning, 16 January 2024. Simonnet-Febvre 9 Avenue Oberwesel 89800 Chablis Tel: +33 3 86 18 95 69 www.simonnet-febvre.com Domaine Instagram More reports with Maison Simonnet-Febvre Paul on 2022: “We’re very happy with 2022 – 57 hl/ha – and no… Read More
Simonnet-Febvre – 2021
Tasted with Paul Espitalié in Chablis, 10 January 2023. Simonnet-Febvre 9 Avenue Oberwesel 89800 Chablis Tel: +33 3 86 18 95 69 www.simonnet-febvre.com More reports with Maison Simonnet-Febvre Paul on 2022: “We’re very happy with 2022 – 57 hl/ha – no VCI. There’s lots of fruit and roundness just here… Read More
Simonnet-Febvre – 2020
Tasted with Paul Espitalié in Chablis, 12 January 2022. Simonnet-Febvre 9 Avenue Oberwesel 89800 Chablis Tel: +33 3 86 18 95 69 www.simonnet-febvre.com More reports with Maison Simonnet-Febvre Paul on 2021: 21 was certainly complicated but we managed an average… Read More
Simonnet-Febvre – 2016
Tasted with Jean-Philippe Archambaud in Chablis, 16 January 2018. Simonnet-Febvre 9 Avenue Oberwesel 89800 Chablis Tel: +33 3 86 18 95 69 www.simonnet-febvre.com Jean-Philippe on 2017: “2017 was globally a good year, but complicated from the perspective of pricing – which makes export hard. Read More
Simonnet-Febvre – 2014
Tasted in Chitry le Fort with Jean-Philippe Archambaud and Emmanuelle Pasquet, 05 January 2016. Simonnet-Febvre Cuverie de Chitry 30 Route de Saint Bris Chitry le Fort, 89530 Tel: +33 3 86 18 95 69 www.simonnet-febvre.com Jean-Philippe on 2015: “2015 was superb,; a… Read More
Simonnet-Febvre – 2013
Tasted with Jean-Philippe Archambaud in Chirty-le-Fort, 7th January 2015. Simonnet-Febvre 9 Avenue Oberwesel 89800 Chablis Tel: +33 3 86 18 95 69 www.simonnet-febvre.com Jean-Philippe on 2013… “Much lower yields – we are buying a lot of grapes and must, but we still ended up… Read More
57x 2022 Petit Chablis – Blind Tasted
Tasted blind, at the BIVB office in Chablis, 29 January 2024. As always, I find these blind tastings a great source of new names, the aim being to find producers of great wines that I haven’t previously visited – Chablis has been quite a dynamic place in the last years,… Read More
43x Irancy 2022 – Blind Tasted
Tasted blind, at the BIVB office in Chablis, 29 January 2024. These blind tastings are my great source of new names, and, of course, the wines were tasted blind. The sample order was completely random – the next bottle was the one closest to hand. The bottles were numbered and… 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… Read More