spotted in vosne, and…

By billn on May 28, 2008 #asides #producer update

I spotted this while taking a tour around Vosne the other week.

It seems that (Château!) Domaine de Eugenie are not just increasing the prices for their wines, they are actually spending some money on facilities and updating them too!

I know the owner of the building in the picture, so asked what was happening, but apparently no contracts are currently signed, so I won’t say who is selling the facility and why – not yet anyway 😉

Also I found an engrossing story about a couple (He Japanese, She Korean) making their life as producers of Burgundy. I love this quote – sums it up for me too:

The couple say they want to make wine that makes you wonder what the next glass will taste like

http://www.loudumont.com/

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fancy investing in burgundy? “forget it,”

By billn on May 23, 2008 #asides #other sites

A quote from a piece by Andrew Jefford from this weeks (London) Finiancial Times.

“Burgundy is just 4 per cent of our turnover,” says Stephen Browett of Farr Vintners, the wine world’s leading broker and often first call for those wishing to invest. “We sell more champagne than burgundy.”

Interesting stuff. Full article here.

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burgundy…

By billn on May 21, 2008 #asides

There’s an old saying that goes something like:

Opinions are like ********* – everyone has one!

Well when it comes to burgundy, here are my standbys:

What YOU like is what you like
Be Curious
Avoid Artifice – i.e. too much of anything, e.g. oak, ripeness, concentration, dilution etc….
Enjoyment is 90% about timing

I thought this note might be about ’10 Burgundy commandments’ but I ran out after 4 – though I thought it was a good 4! Certainly ‘commandments’ is anyway the wrong word, but any more ideas from the stalls?

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wine and music…

By billn on May 14, 2008 #asides

If music be the food of love…

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a bela sintra

By billn on May 06, 2008 #asides

a bela sintra - cork

With advertising like these, I assumed ‘A bela Sintra‘ was a Brazilian winery – actually seems an upmarket restaurant. I still like the pics 😉

a bela sintra

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so

By billn on April 30, 2008 #asides #other sites

Just SO…

The functional elegance of this rarefied speak is uniquely captured in one of its most inconspicuous words: “so.” This isn’t “so” the intensifier (“so expensive”); it’s not the “so” that joins two clauses. This is the “so” that introduces a sentence, as in “So as we can see, modified Newtonian dynamics cannot account for the rotation of any of the three observed galaxies.”

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an evening aside

By billn on March 28, 2008 #asides #degustation

I’m too busy typing other things right now, but Alex Gambal’s 2005 Chambolle 1er Charmes is really delivering tonight!

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more travel – this time paid

By billn on March 20, 2008 #asides #travel

easter buddies bunnies Days of meetings and customer visits whilst avoiding tidal waves of reorganisations back at home – all will come to roost eventually. I spent yesterday evening with a glass (or 2) of chardonnay in a pub while watching football – I don’t drink beer, but white wine by the glass in a pub is usually fit for purpose, red not so often!

I’ll take a few interesting bottles to our friend’s place for the Easter weekend and maybe even write a note about them sometime early next week – I might even ski…

Have a nice Easter…

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already writing a list to santa?

By billn on March 20, 2008 #accessories #asides

angels share

You know you wants it! [Gollum]

“The Angelshare single-bottle cellar that special bottle of wine in its own temperature and humidity controlled time capsule for that special occasion in the future, whether it’s a birthday, anniversary, graduation or other significant event in your life or of those closest to you.
The compact dimensions and elegant, understated design makes the single-bottle cellar a focal point in any setting and an ideal presentation package to treasure.”

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