Pinot Exceptionalism? From the wine economist…
Also (on a completely different tack), Part 1: The idiot’s guide to idiot’s guides…
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energy and exotic fruit…
I loved this post. I have experience of tasting at ‘larger producers’ where the ‘host(ess)’ might suddenly throw in ‘exotic fruit’ and whilst I might nod in understanding, it’s not something I actually wrote myself – yet, how many other people tasted there? Why? The number of notes I subsequently read with ‘exotic fruit’ as a descriptor.
I’m pretty sure it’s a game that some producers play – a bonus going to the employee whose phrase was copied the most! 😉
fwob reviewed by clive coates mw
FWOB, kindly reviewed by Clive Coates MW – to him, my thanks…
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Also ‘new in’ today, another excellent piece from Vinography.
life and times of jacques…
From Vinography on Saturday…
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it’s the soil…
When I think of my wines, I do not see the vines or fruit, but the incomparable quality of these soils, which are the clearest difference between a wine “bien fait” and wine “hors classé”
Patrick Essa
https://twitter.com/Patrick_Essa/status/227708980787564544
mikulski…
A nice write-up on François Mikulski today…
jefford in top form
Andrew on great form in his weekly column
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home sweet home…
You know, the place where all the bushes are twice the size they were two weeks ago and where the grass definitely now needs clipping!
First: catching up on the news of the last two weeks – frankly it’s a meagre bag – assuming you (like me) have little interest in the endless stories about wine investment and the ‘new taste’ for Burgundy in Asia, though (with a wink) didn’t you know that the smart money is already moving into Italian wines… 😉
Second: After five hours hacking away in the garden, a wine to curl up with…
1992 Jaffelin, Pommard
Medium, aged colour. The nose is different every time you sniff; forest floor, a little green, perfect red fruit then a little almond – I’m loving it. Good acidity, just a hint tart but with a sweetness behind that covers the cracks. Good intensity, high-toned fruit with a very faint creamy, perhaps coconut edge. A wine with rippling personality – I wish I had more!
Rebuy – Yes
Third: There were, of-course, other wines in the last two weeks – honourable mentions go to a 2008 Chablis Valmur from JC Bessin and a 2002 ‘own label’ villages NSG from BB&R – made for them by Nicolas Potel.
Fourth: What were they thinking? 😉
jancis on bellenum…
Jancis really sets the scene and tells you much more than I did, but I expect the regulars here already knew all that stuff or(?) Whatever, good stuff!