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The Market
(tawdry?) – is that strictly necessary…?
#HospicesdeBeaune Asia trip contd. Forbidden City tasting with A Jacquet (r), R Masse (centre) pic.twitter.com/DkfzKSboXh
— Anthony Hanson (@ahansonmw) November 10, 2013
With all the reduced yields in Burgundy, I find it more than a hint tawdry that the Christies marketing machine is pushing ever-harder in China to sell the latest Hospices de Beaune auction wines – particularly given that there is so little 2013 wine to sell. Clearly it is an unnecessary expense whilst times are hard for the many Côte de Beaune producers with little or no wine to sell…
That said, one assumes that Roland Masse is travelling on Christies’ coin, because this is Christies marketing their latest wine auction, and more particularly their own name (in this ‘potentially golden’ territory), it has nothing to do with the Hospices, whose 2013 wines could easily be sold in France alone – it has everything to do, however, with corporations trying to heat-up a market so that we all eventually pay more for a bottle of Beaune. Until that market moves on of-course. But who then, picks up the pieces? Willingly or otherwise, the Hospices are simply being used for Christies’ marketing.
Tawdry…
news on the bourgogne du jura purchase
From Decanter here…
offer of the day – Faiveley 2012…
DOMAINE FAIVELEY 2012 – En Primeur
PREMIERS CRUS
Gevrey-Chambertin Les Cazetiers 2012 75cl 69.80 Swiss Francs
Pommard Les Rugiens 2012 75cl 78.00
Nuits-Saint-Georges Les Saint-Georges 2012 75cl 98.00
Nuits-Saint-Georges Les Saint-Georges 2012 150cl 201.00
Chambolle-Musigny Les Fuées 2012 75cl 119.00
Chambolle-Musigny La Combe d’Orveau 2012 75cl 119.00
Chambolle-Musigny Les Amoureuses 2012 75cl 228.00
GRANDS CRUS
Echezeaux 2012 75cl 139.00
Corton Clos des Cortons 2012 75cl 139.00
Corton Clos des Cortons 2012 150cl 283.00
Mazis-Chambertin 2012 75cl 169.00
Mazis-Chambertin 2012 150cl 343.00
Latricières Chambertin 2012 75cl 158.00
Chambertin Clos de Bèze 2012 75cl 235.00
Chambertin Clos de Bèze 2012 150cl 475.00
Chambertin Clos de Bèze Les Ouvrées Rodin 2012 75cl 598.00
Corton Charlemagne 2012 75cl 159.00
Bienvenues Bâtard Montrachet 2012 75cl 229.00
Bâtard Montrachet 2012 75cl 248.00
And, of-course, you need to add tax to those prices – lucky it’s only 8% in Switzerland (I suppose…!)
I really only have one reaction here – Ouch! – and the obvious one that I won’t be buying. I do remember buying the 98 Clos des Cortons in mags – they were 98 francs. I wish my house and salary were worth 3 times more in that time…
books in the post…
Ooh! Another day another book – it’s an avalanche! A nice delivery this morning – just leave it with me for a couple of weeks to digest 😉
oh, and yet another DRC fraud story broke cover yesterday too…
seguin-manuel grows…
Domaine Seguin-Manuel gets a toehold in the Côte de Nuits
Domaine Seguin-Manuel takes over a 1,8-hectare vineyard in Vosne-Romanée « Aux Communes ». Hand harvested on October 3-4, the grapes coming from these old vines are showing a high quality potential.
The estate now covers a total area of 8,5 hectares. Initially located in Savigny-lès-Beaune, Domaine Seguin-Manuel has been farming several new plots in Beaune, Pommard, Meursault and Puligny-Montrachet since its acquisition by Thibaut Marion in 2004. In the process of certification, all the vineyards are organically grown.
« This new plot in Vosne-Romanée makes it possible for us to get a toehold in an iconic village of the Côte de Nuits. It contributes to the control of our supplies of sought-after appellations wines and strengthens the artisan dimension of our winery».
Seguin-Manuel produce 80 000 bottles a year and export 70% of them in some thirty countries.
Thibaut Marion
Vigneron
tough times in burgundy…
Here.
official 2012 burgundy harvest volumes – ouch!
Update time, and oohh! what a lot of typing…
Anyway some shocking reading herein when you look at the (lack of!) volumes harvested in 2012 – mainly, but not entirely, in the Côte de Beaune.
Unfortunately, my page-width doesn’t allow sight of the 2009 harvest volumes which are generally much higher than those now displayed, and just to note that the 5-year average continues to plummet…
Of-course all the figures are quoted courtesy of the BIVB…
