@winebird has competition – Oh, how I laughed…
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yep, bin there, done that…
Then something odd happened. With each successive campaign, even as I had more disposable income to spend, the level of Bordeaux I could afford to buy kept shifting downward. I could no longer afford to drink as well as I did when I was a penniless student! When the 2005s came out to even greater fanfare and frenzy than the 2000s, I didn’t buy six cases. I bought six bottles. In the years since, the number has been zero.
From Keith; note, it doesn’t just apply to Bordeaux 😉
Oh, and take it from me as I’ve tried it, THIS is soooo good!
pitiot et poupon maps for your iPad, iPhone, iWhatever….
Here:
http://www.vignobles-de-bourgogne.com/
(No affiliation etcetera…)
audrey says ‘pinot noir’ (and other stories…)
I started not knowing what to think, but you know, it’s growing on me, mainly because of how it finishes 🙂
A couple of (more) ‘traditional’ wine communications:
- Eric Rousseau – the man who says no…
- Putting the bubbles in Romanée-Conti – but who says they were ‘legit’ before being ‘bubbled’?
wow – château du clos de vougeot – google earth style
back again…
Doesn’t a month fly by? Though I suppose I’ll be paying for it for a little more than one month to come.
NZ (only south island) was very special, and over the next days I will certainly subject you to some of my holiday snaps, but in the meantime, a couple of new-ish stories that might just keep you going.
- Serena Sutcliffe visits Burgundy
- And Laurent Ponsot on real and unreal wine
- Of-course it’s old news to you, but still relatively new to me that Antonio Galloni has parted with the Wine Advocate. It is still too early to decide how good a critic of Burgundy wines AG is, but let’s see how he gets on with his new ‘vehicle‘. His site seems to position AG as the product, rather than the liquid thing we want to learn about…
And now for a trip into the cellar. Back soon…
jacques’ ‘almost-words’
A short but brilliant vignette of the equally brilliant Jacques Lardière
unesco and 2011…
A couple of news stories:
Most important for Burgundy, is the news that it won’t achieve its desired aim to have Unesco World Heritage Staus – not this year anyway. It seems some of the rules were changed and a country could only submit one ‘entry’ per category – that meant that Champagne also missed out. This means that at least one more year of shaking everybody’s hands is required, though France already has 37 ‘things’ with such ‘status’. (More here…)
Will Lyons picks out some of his favourite domaines from the 2011 vintage – though (Remi Rollin excepted) none in the Côte de Beaune – no restraint in his recommendation of the vintage.
A little fun from Reilly Ace of Spies…
Cornucopia Vitus from Pinot Noir NZ on Vimeo.