Just in case anyone missed it, my Mâconnais 2019 Burgundy Report is online. 26 domaines’ wines and their comments on recent vintages too. There are also a bunch of tasting notes on 2018s as a number of domaines thought it too early to show their 2019s. Does that leave you thirsty for some red(?) If…
Reports
A new Burgundy Report….
For those that haven’t yet noticed, my July 2020 Burgundy Report is online.
Some new domaines visited and now starting the transition from tasting 2018s to tasting the new 2019 vintage. Full-power on that from the end of September!
June 2020’s report – now online
From Monday 15th June, the French borders re-opened for ‘aliens’ such as I.
‘Eventually!‘ I hear you say.
I’m in agreement – never has 13 weeks of absence seemed so long! It’s much worse for some of my US colleagues – they haven’t been allowed to return to France since their mutual borders closed in mid-March!
All things considered, I managed to pack in a reasonable schedule into those last two weeks of June: Visits to producers in the Côte d’Or, Mâconnais and Beaujolais plus a deeper look into Gevrey 1er cru of the Clos des Issarts and the hot ‘new’ label of Beaujolais-Lantignié.
The report went live – HERE – today. I hope that all you subscribers will enjoy it 🙂
July and some of August is, and will be, Puligny-Montrachet time, with a deeper look at the terroirs of Puligny with the winemakers (mainly) of that village…
at last…
I’ve only missed 12 weeks of being able to visit producers, but to be honest, it has seemed longer.
My thanks – of course – to the domaines that had the time to see me this week – they will all be in my June report. I’m planning to be ‘en place‘ for a few days every other week, and there are always many more people worth paying a visit to!
May 2020 Burgundy Report
… is online for subscribers.
This ‘lockdown’ report concentrates on the value propositions for 2018 Burgundy:
- Where the real value lies in ‘2018 Bourgogne’
- Very fine and well price 2018 Chablis 1er Vaillons
- Super and ageworth Pouilly-Fuissé
- 28 wines with unreserved recommendadtions from many more tasted
Enjoy!
The new Burgundy Report is online
2018 Beaujolais – it’s where the value lies
Most wine merchants are still making deliveries to self-isolators – so what are you going to drink at home?
If you’re looking at 2018s, then the value – and often the consistency of quality – is more often with Beaujolais than the Côte d’Or. So with that in mind:
Newly online is my February Report – 2018 Beaujolais.
62 domains, well over 400 new wines from an, often, great vintage. That’s now over 3,000 wines tasted from 260 domaines for the 2018 vintage reports of October 2019 to February 2020, and in each case with vintage commentary from their winemakers.
Now, who’s going to be the first to buy my mixed case recommendation? – That’ll keep you perky at home!
2018 Chablis – January’s 2020 Burgundy Report
Chablis GC Valmur, 06 September 2018
2018 Chablis
Online now – I doubt that there’s a more authoritative report to find. Over 650 wines tasted for subscribers.
Enjoy: Here
beaujolais visits week 07 of 2020
Lucky with the weather this week. While home in Switzerland was buffeted by the wind and rain – occasionally the thunder, lightning and hail too – the Beaujolais Alps were a much nicer place to be; sometimes sunny, hardly rainy or windy – I was lucky with the weather. My thanks, of-course, to the winemakers that hosted me. That’s two weeks down, one more to go – so you can guess where I’ll be next week again 😉
Plus a few pics from out-and-about during the week: