A little more Rully, anyone?
Louis Max, already with quite an interest in Mercurey, has invested in one of the neighbours…
Here.
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security guards?
Domaine Ponsot is the first high-profile producer to adopt eProvenance’s
second-generation technology, which provides a detailed history of the life of
a case of wine.
The sensor monitors the temperature and humidity of fine wines as they
travel from the wine producer to the customer, and the information can be
read on smartphones and tablets.
Winesearcher
Well, given the price of some producers’ wines, they can afford a physical presence too!
my first vintage 2012 purchases
6-Pack prices in Swiss Francs, delivered to my cellar.
You know, I finally realised it was time to get my credit card dirty. The Jadot Chardonnay from yesterday apart (and I suppose a couple of bottles of Kiwi when I was over there in February), I haven’t bought any wine this year – none! Of-course there will be ‘standing-order’ cases to pick-up and pay for from the usually suspects in Burgundy, but this is my first in 2013.
Despite all the hullabaloo, 2012 (as you can see) is not particularly more expensive than previous vintages – unless you only want Griotte or Cros Parantoux etcetera, in which case you will most certainly be fleeced…
news du jour…
Just a few things to have caught my eye:
- Unaffordable wine
- And rather emphasising that point!
- Add a dash of said, unaffordable whites.
- I thought this guy (Brian Moore’s brother?) was freestyle rapping at first – sadly not – but could anyway be interesting…
Enjoy…
due or undue diligence?
Yet again, an 'authenticity problem' with wines being sold @ChristiesInc this time at the Henry Tang auction: http://t.co/h2BvNJ1JO0
— 🅱️ill nanson (@billnanson) March 15, 2013
domaine david clark no more!
The alert:
Tribute to a wine hero: David Clark of Morey St Denis is handing in his secateurs http://t.co/ub9L56oImp
— Jasper Morris (@justjasper) March 6, 2013
The confirmation:
And the low-down from David himself here. I’m having lunch with him in less than 2 weeks, but am not planning to buy his domaine 😉
unesco and 2011…
A couple of news stories:
Most important for Burgundy, is the news that it won’t achieve its desired aim to have Unesco World Heritage Staus – not this year anyway. It seems some of the rules were changed and a country could only submit one ‘entry’ per category – that meant that Champagne also missed out. This means that at least one more year of shaking everybody’s hands is required, though France already has 37 ‘things’ with such ‘status’. (More here…)
Will Lyons picks out some of his favourite domaines from the 2011 vintage – though (Remi Rollin excepted) none in the Côte de Beaune – no restraint in his recommendation of the vintage.
offer of the day – Leflaive 2011…
DOMAINE LEFLAIVE 2011 – Puligny-Montrachet (En Primeur)
Bourgogne 2011 75cl 34.00 Swiss Francs
Puligny-Montrachet 2011 75cl 59.00
PREMIERS CRUS
Puligny-Montrachet Les Clavoillons 2011 75cl 79.50
Meursault Sous Le Dos d’Âne 2011 75cl 89.50
Puligny-Montrachet Les Folatières 2011 75cl 129.00
Puligny-Montrachet Les Combettes 2011 75cl 138.00
Puligny-Montrachet Les Pucelles 2011 75cl 158.00
Puligny-Montrachet Les Pucelles 2011 150cl 321.00
GRANDS CRUS
Bienvenues Batard Montrachet 2011 75cl 259.00
Batard Montrachet 2011 75cl 279.00
Chevalier-Montrachet 2011 75cl 348.00
Other than a couple of Francs more for the Combettes and the Pucelles, the prices are the same as were offered for the 2010s, and (Grand Crus excepted which took a jump in 2010) virtually the same as 2009…