Just a short note that a few people were missing the feed from recent posts in their RSS reader. It’s a function of the recent site update, so you will now need to point your ‘reader’ to the following new url:
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Site Updates
live links – dead links…
If anyone’s having problems – sorry.
The whole site was re-linked (with redirections) overnight. The site will be easier to manage but you might experince quite a lot of dead links if you’ve bookmarked any particular pages – just so you know. The NoteFinder is today’s biggest casualty – hopefully back later today…
burgundy forum
I made a forum – I have to say, it was surprisingly painless to install.
What won’t be painless, and will most likely take at least a week of part-time fiddling, will be my attempts to make it look like it fits to the site, rather than some techie add-on.
Have fun, and note that there’s only one rule – be civil!
Domaine names?
I am warned from overseas today:
Following are all the domain names and internet Keyword which are submitted by Matua company:
1. Domain names:
Burgundy-report.net
Burgundy-report.cn
Burgundy-report.com.cn
Burgundy-report.tw
Burgundy-report.jp
Burgundy-report.se
Burgundy-report.ch
Burgundy-report.es
Burgundy-report.asia
2. Internet Keyword:
Burgundy-report
However, I can block them if I wish (it’s a small time window of-course) by buying them all myself…..
fooey fuées!
Lots of Chambolle 1er Les Fuées with Jacky Rigaux last night – while the site was looking a bit odd after the server change – if odd for half a day is all I have to put up with, that’s fine!
Back to the Fuées; when I say lots, it was ‘only’ ten wines. If I add a few more it could be the basis of (okay, I’ll say it before you do – the ‘padding’ for) a vineyard profile – hmm – perhaps in the Autumn Burgundy Report, Summer is already booked 😉 Of note, there were 2 wines from the 2004 vintage and let me just say, you didn’t need sight of the label to guess the vintage!
hoping the sky doesn’t fall in!
In the next few days the whole of this site will be moving to another server. I’m quite sure that this is a tried and tested process and that nothing can go wrong. That said, this is my last entry until all is done – 2 days, 3 days or the sky falling in – we will see.
Signing off – hopefully for a short time….
louis jadot 1999 beaune 1er les theurons
Just a short not to say that the Spring 2010 Burgundy Report (already the 8th!) will be up-and-running tomorrow. Well in excess of 300 notes from real bottles, interspersed with stunning (i.e. not written by me!) articles – coming soon! 🙂
I have only one complaint related to this wine – why do Jadot say Theurons, when almost everybody-else say Teurons?! (walks away with Gallic shrug…)
1999 Louis Jadot, Beaune 1er Les Theurons
Medium, medium-plus colour – and quite young looking colour at that! The nose has minerality, tar and eventually candied red berries. Real intensity and mouth-watering acidity define the wine today, yet there is a hint of fat before the acidity takes over and dissuades you from chewing to inspect the tannin! Long, mineral flavours with and edge of sweetness. Drinkable but très young!
Rebuy – Yes
paddling…
Like a duck paddling away below the surface I’m trying to give the impression of everything being serene above the waist. The fact is the next Burgundy Report (already the 8th year!) is coming together in a much more orderly/timely fashion than usual – in fact you will only have to wait until the 15th because I’ve requested some stuff from external parties, and that’s their deadline – I suppose if they deliver it early you can have it early too 🙂
I’ve been going through a bit of a white clear-out phase, and didn’t want to subject you to the same notes every week, but during the last 6 weeks I’ve managed to go through the following, only some of which have been mentioned in the diary:
- 1999 G. Roulot, Bourgogne (1) – oxidised
- 1999 Morey-Blanc Meursault (1) – oxidised
- 2000 A. Guyon, Corton-Charlemagne (1) – oxidised
- 2000 Méo-Camuzet, Clos St.Philibert (2) – fine
- 2001 Méo-Camuzet, Clos St.Philibert (2) – fine
- 2001 Leflaive, Bourgogne (1) – fine
- 2001 Chât.Puligny, Puligny Folatières (1) – ‘okay’
- 2001 W. Fevre, Chablis Les Clos (3) – fine
- 2002 W. Fevre, Chablis Les Clos (3) – fine
- 2002 W. Fevre, Chablis Bougrots (1) – oxidised
- 2002 Bouchard Père, Meursault Perrières (1) – oxidised
- 2002 A. Guyon, Corton-Charlemagne (2) – part oxidised
- 2005 Bouchard Père, Chablis Bougrots (2) – fine
- 2005 F&D Clair, St.Aubin Dents du Chien (1) – fine
- 2005 Marc Morey Chassagne Morgeot (1) – fine
- 2006 Pierre Morey, Meursault Perrières (1) – fine
- 2006 Alex Gambal, Bourgogne Blanc (3) – fine
So 8 oxidised from 27 – but that’s too charitable I think, as I included some young wines. If we look at 2002 and older it’s 8 from 19…
Moving swiftly on, here’s an article about Faiveley that was published last weekend….
my NoteFinder sucks…, so…
As mentioned in a post last week, the original notefinder application is becoming close to useless – killed by the rising number of users.
So whilst my new version is not (functionally) complete – ie the links to appellations, profiles and websites etc. are not currently working, and the tasting dates are wrong – the note finding part itself seems to function absolutely fine.
So please feel free to point your searching habits to the NoteFinder (2) here – let’s call it the ‘alpha’ version 😉
updating for the next days
Just a quick apology and pre-apology!
The apology is for those users of the NoteFinder:
Leider benötigt Ihr Web im Moment 260 MB RAM. Ihnen stehen laut Vertrag jedoch nur 64 MB zu. Daher haben wir uns entschlossen Ihr Web auf 160 MB RAM zu begrenzen. Dies ist aus Schutz, da Sie sonst im schlimmsten Fall den ganzen Server für andere Kunden blockieren bzw. die Performance erheblich beeinträchtigen.
That basically mean that the ‘application’ is too successful so they will now make it fail in order to push me to spend 10x what I currently spend to make it work – nice huh! So sorry to those users that are fed up with how it works right now.
The pre-apology is because a few things could get quirky around here while I move it – TADA! – to a new solution. Hopefully it will be online by the weekend and will work 🙂
Apology mode over!
And now, from The Pour – A bargain at half the price…