I just wanted to share with you a short note on contributions to these diary pages.

The early Burgundy Reports had a ‘guest text’ section which despite having fallen by the wayside in last couple of years, it remains open and available to potential/latent contributors. Outside of that, it’s really only the two reports of Bruce Palling and Peter Sidebotham that covered DRC 2006 that haven’t been written by me – I’m not anticipating much change there, but let’s see!

Regarding these ‘diary’ pages, things are certainly more flexible. Whether it’s Ray’s ‘how to start a domaine/new life’, Peter’s bottles – with the odd etranger among them – or some of Rusty’s insights into another world of pinot noir, it’s all stuff that I like to read. Maybe I will get the chance to add even more contributions/contributors so not to leave you on the monotonous drip of ‘today’s bottle is…’ If you have ideas, get in touch!

That’s it!
Note, it should be even easier to differentiate who has written what (hopefully it’s not hard now) when I finally get round to updating the site design a little – nothing too generic of course !

It’s holiday time – but in part-payment for my absence, I leave you with the Spring Report. Over 280 tasting notes dotted around 15 pages. Feel free to comment and argue, but my moderatory tones will only return in a week…
Cheers

Just to let you know that I’ve updated the NoteFinder database, so there’s nearly another 200 notes in there. There are now well over 300 notes each on 2005 and 2006 wines in bottle. Hope it’s useful!

I’ll be away the next couple of days, so no updates and probably not many bottles either – I shall be trying to be ‘sportif’!

It took some time, but finally the summer issue of the burgundy report went live on Monday. Too much work and not enough play was to blame for the delay – hopefully a little more balance will be achieved in the next months.

I’ve updated the database that runs the NoteFinder – it’s well over 2,200 notes now, including domaine website and domaine profile links where they exist – it will probably go live on the site sometime tonight.

I had a delivery of wine yesterday, but won’t get to taste any of it until tomorrow, but that will be a good ‘teaser’ as I’m in the Côtes on Friday – it’s just a shame the weather forecast is so bad – 12°C and wet by Saturday anybody? Ouch! 🙁

The whole content of of my tasting-note database in one picture!  It impressed me, though some might say that’s not hard! 🙂