Via the BIVB today, this is completely new. It works okay on my desktop – integrated with locations of domaines, etcetera. It still needs a bit more work for handheld devices I think – a more app-style would likely be better – but it’s a good start đ
BOURGOGNE MAPS
I’ve added the above to my Map Resource.
With thanks to Vins de Bourgogne BIVB
A brilliant introduction the workings of a vineyard in Burgundy. Almost 1 year’s work distilled into 13 and a half minutes – absolutely worth your time!
After one year of filming, resulting in 40 hours of footage and some 30,000 photos, the Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB) is proud to present its latest short film in the series âWinemaker in Bourgogne, an artisanal craftâ. This first part, âThe People and the Vinesâ, was filmed between September 2017 and August 2018, on around 10 estates in the Bourgogne region.
BIVB…
As you can see, it clearly never rained in 2017 & 2018 đ
I’m thankful to Laurent Gotti for the alert about this:
After “Climats et lieux-dits des grands vignobles de Bourgogne“, Marie-HĂ©lĂšne Landrieu-Lussigny and Sylvain Pitiot’s reference work dedicated to the CĂŽte de Beaune and the CĂŽte de Nuits (Editions de Monza – Editions du Meurger 2012), the pair continue their exploration of the Burgundy terroirs by publishing “La CĂŽte Chalonnaise – Atlas et Histoire des Noms de Climats et de Lieux” (also Editions de Monza – Editions du Meurger). I like to call this ‘The Third CĂŽte‘ – the CĂŽte de Dijon having been long-time lost to us…
Mercurey, Givry, Montagny, Rully, Bouzeron are covered by their associated maps and the names of their 561 Climats.
Now, cleverly, bi-lingual, so no need for two editions. I know that I will use it a little less than their first ‘atlas’ but it remains a ‘must have!‘
I love these maps – and now there are even more of them!
To the right you can see the new ‘wider picture’ maps in the Beaujolais series, which now means that it’s a set of 19(!) – and they are all now in my greedy hands! This set now comes in a much more user-friendly A3 size – as opposed to the more cumbersome A2 (roughly) versions that were previously available – so now they will be much less expensive to frame. Actually, they are the perfect size for laminating and using as place-mats – though that means that I’d have to find 19 ‘friends!‘
[Edit] And you can actually buy them here.
The Siberian cold isn’t quite in the CĂŽtes yet, but the wind still has some chill to it – we bumped into Dominique Lafon in Beaune’s market on Saturday and I asked him if he was happy with the cold snap, he answered “For the vines yes, but I’m damn cold – I’ve got a hat in my jacket pocket, that I should be wearing, but my girlfriend doesn’t like the look of it – so there you go!” Haha!
Anyway in the afternoon we took a walk around the hillside of Tessons (plus, plus) with its views towards the town of Meursault – I liked the light so took far too many very similar pictures! Enjoy!
That a record value for the 157th Hospices de Beaune wine sale was achieved was never in doubt, such was the extra volume of wine that was ‘donated’ by the 2017 vintage. There hasn’t been a volume of wine like this for sale since either 2011 or 2009, or in some places since 1999 – it just depends on where you want to look. The yields were around 40â42 hl/ha for the reds and 48â50 hl/ha for the whites – whilst this is much more than most recent vintages, it was within the permitted maximums.
The Domaine of the Hospices now runs to 61 hectares and in 2017 offered at least 49 cuvĂ©es for the sale. The hammer-price total achieved by the barrel sales today was well over 11 million Euros – that’s âŹ13,529,301 with commissions – which beats the record established in 2015 by over âŹ2 million! The extra total was volume-related versus 2015, as the average, per-cuvĂ©e, price decreased versus that vintage, but it was still higher than in 2016.
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*Ex Christies, without commissions…
‘But a film?‘ I hear you say.
Yes indeed! This was a showing tonight, in Beaune, of a 98% completed version, and I think it a great portrait of a number of growers, looking at their last, very difficult, 18 months or-so in the vines, plus a little insight into the Trois Glorieuses. Well done Scott Wright and David Baker – it will be worth your time, whenever and wherever it is eventually released:
I bought this, because it’s about Chablis, and Chablis is my day-job! For âŹ20 there’s virtually no advertising across CuvĂ©e Magazine’s 120 pages of content, though the text is large and the pictures are page-filling. You could certainly buy a more in-depth book for that.
There is much about this magazine that reminds me of my dear and departed TONG. The concept seems very similar here; a premium-priced magazine with no advertising – or in CuvĂ©e’s case, virtually no advertising. Where CuvĂ©e differs, is that there seems just one writer/photographer behind this magazine – Ăpernay-based Stefanie Köhler. TONG had specialists/MWs for the writing though I was never sure about their images – but TONG’s was obviously a more expensive approach than the one taken by Stefanie’s CuvĂ©e.
TONG lasted about 5-6 years in its hard-copy format before seemingly imploding / dying on the vine. I hope that CuvĂ©e does a little better; some of the explanatory pieces are certainly bite-sized soundbites rather than offering much depth, but the domaine profiles – and there are 14 of them in this issue – are as good as you will find anywhere, as there is insight into the characters of the wine-makers themselves, not just their roots. I could complain that some of the tasting notes are too ‘adjectivey/flowery’ but others resonate.
I assume that, in the end, TONG failed because it couldn’t hold onto enough people willing to pay about âŹ25 an issue – a premium price – with generalist content. Indeed, that was what finished me; I stopped subscribing after about 3 years as the content went further and further away from my zones of interest. I don’t know how long CuvĂ©e/Stefanie can keep it up – Issue 1 was about Champagne, where Stefanie is based, and it seems that there is a ‘special’ in December about …Champagne – but it’s not issue number 3… I’m sure I will eventually understand what’s happening.
As a standalone issue, I would whole-heartily recommend this. And before people get on their high-horses about the price – it costs the same as a decent bottle of Chablis – which is 25% of the cost of a decent bottle of Burgundy these days! Just pay and enjoy…
First published in 2015, I’m happy to have a full, physical, set of these useful maps – and you can now find them all – here online – courtesy (& of-course copyright!) of Inter Beaujolais; though I’m still prevaricating over having those physical versions framed – as it will cost well-over âŹ1,000 to do them all!
I believe that these maps are an important first step in the improvement of both Beaujolais wine and therefore its the market too; they will breed interest in the detail, in knowledge of the subsoils and eventually they will help expand today’s standard cuvĂ©e formulas of Cru or Cru Vieilles-Vignes or even worse Cru FĂ»t de ChĂȘnes to bring more ‘Cru Climat‘ labeling such as done for a long time by ChĂąteau Thivin.
They are not just beautiful maps, they are important maps…
Looks worth trying to get hold of a copy…
Looks interesting: Behind the romance of French wine https://t.co/dmHvf44InK via @TheStreet
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