The November 2024 issue of Burgundy-Report

The 2023 Burgundy Vintage:
Part 2 of 3 in the Côte d’Or
Right: Vosne-Romanée – 12-Sept 2023

This report comprises 42 reports of visits from November 2024 plus a link to my summary of the Côte d’Or vintage from the October report.

As usual, from each producer a few words on their vintage campaigns (2023 & 2024) and, as always, those extra-special wines that are worth a special search are highlighted for you. I’ve another 80 visits underway that will populate the November and December reports – online before I head to Chablis in 3 weeks time – I hope 🙂

Part 3 of the Côte d’Or reports will have about another 35 domaines…

The October 2024 issue of Burgundy-Report

The 2023 Burgundy Vintage:
Part 1 of 3 in the Côte d’Or
Right: Pommard – 08-Sept 2023

This report comprises 38 reports of visits from October 2024 plus my summary of the Côte d’Or vintage.

As usual, from each producer a few words on their vintage campaigns (2023 & 2024) and, as always, those extra-special wines that are worth a special search are highlighted for you. I’ve another 80 visits underway that will populate the November and December reports – online before I head to Chablis in 3 weeks time – I hope 🙂

All my best wishes to you all for 2025 – and now it’s time for a glass of Epénots 🙂

To whet your appetite for lots of imminent 2023 vintage domaine visit reports, here’s a small amuse bouche looking at how the 2024 vintage unfolded, plus a look back at the 2004 vintage – 20 years on – with many bottles opened in the cause.

I hope that you enjoy

My first 2023 report will be online in the next 10 days, with a mix of Côte d’Or domaines – red & white – already including my summary of the vintage in this geography.

Here.

I’ve assembled 17 domaines from my June and July visits – to bring a little more heft – but still bringing a new record for this site of 390 domaines visited since the last (2023) harvest.

Despite the new record total, these were quiet months as the domaines continued to battle this year’s elements and preferred to put off visits until a later day. This lack of appointments spilled over into August and September too – so I was lucky to have started the year so well.

But that’s now ‘history,‘ as the visits for the new 2023 vintage are already underway – see the first of them below. Now let’s see how close I can get to that new figure of 390 over the next 12 months 🙂

Enjoy !!

The May 2024 issue of Burgundy-Report
30 domaines from across the whole of greater Burgundy, still on the 2022 vintage:
A good mix of Chablis, Côte d’Or and some Mâconnais and Beaujolais too.

That’s the visits from around 380 domaines already published since we finished last year’s harvest…

I hope you enjoy – here.

I’ve been adding in tranches but the April Report is now complete with 36 domaines – still overwhelmingly from the 2022 vintage

The diary may have missed some posts in the last weeks, but not the reports section: Yesterday, I visited my 390th domaine since the end of the last harvest and I’m hoping for 400 before the next harvest – which would be a new record for me. I think it’s only myself and Allen Meadows that have anything like such a volume of reports from the region.

I hope that these reports continue to be useful for everyone !!

You can see domaines 382-390, visited in the last days, in the image/mosaic here – always posted on my instagram link.

Later this week I’ll give you an update on the state of play in the vines in this ‘complicated‘ 2024 vintage…

A new report with 50 grand crus plus more 2022 Chablis with 23 more domaines to add to the 63 published in the January 2024 report.

Enjoy !!