Verget – 2021
Tasted in Sologny with Julien Desplans, 04 November 2022. Verget SAS Le Bourg 71960 Sologny Tel: +33 3 85 51 66 00 www.verget-sa.fr More reports for Verget. Julien on 2022: “2022 for us left us very happy – some parcels suffered from the dryness but the later maturing places had… Read More
Verget – 2019
Tasted in Sologny with Julien Desplans, 02 November 2020. Verget SAS Le Bourg 71960 Sologny Tel: +33 3 85 51 66 00 www.verget-sa.fr More reports for Verget. Julien on 2020: “It was hot and very dry,… Read More
Profile: Verget
Tasted in Sologny with Julien Desplans, 22 May 2019. Verget SAS Le Bourg 71960 Sologny Tel: +33 3 85 51 66 00 www.verget-sa.fr In 1976, the young couple, Maine and Jean-Marie Guffens-Heynen, left their heimat of Flanders for Burgundy. They gave themselves… Read More
verget’s 2011 meursault les clous…
2011 Verget, Meursault Les Clous What a brilliant wine! The nose is of ginger-cake and nougat – but with plenty of freshness – nice! Lithe and mineral, indeed I’d say muscular too – this wine is doing a… Read More
2009 verget puligny 1er champs gains
2009 Verget, Puligny-Montrachet 1er Champs Gains This has a forward nose with a few herbs and decent, high-toned fruit. There’s plenty of flavour and a really good intensity too. I’d just like a little more acidity to provide focus,… Read More
Tasting Saint-Véran…
Tasted in Mâcon, 04 October 2017. This tasting was organised so that I could get more of an idea of the various climats in Saint-Véran – particularly with the local syndicat of producers’ idea to better differentiate those terroirs by putting together a programme towards defining premier crus – just… Read More
The baker’s dozen of blind Meursaults
Tasted in Zürich at the Carlton Restaurant, 13 June 2016. Meursault was the theme of our evening tasting in Zürich, organized by Jean-François Guyard of the Swiss website vinifera-mundi. The wines were poured in flights of three or four, blind, the identity of each wine was revealed following… Read More
bejot – to fraud or not to fraud?
http://www.harpers.co.uk/news/anti-fraud-squad-raids-burgundy-producer-bejot-vins-et-terroirs/534156.article Really there’s not much to be said, or rather that can be said, about the above – yet. I saw the first reports – illegible text and photos from Burgundian newspapers at the end of last week. Here is the first English note of the ‘fraud investigation.’… Read More
Artisan Vignerons du Bourgogne du Sud – 2014 Mâconnais
Tasted in the Château Hurigny, 02 November 2015. I normally visit the producers of the ‘Vignerons, Artisans of South Burgundy‘ in April or May, but an opportunity arose for me to get a few of them together in one place – the Château de Hurigny. Read More