Travels in Burgundy 2019

mainly puligny today – a herbicide-orama…

By billn on April 09, 2019 #travels in burgundy 2019#warning - opinion!

April is a time when you can easily see the chemical warfare that hides within many expensive bottles with a Puligny-Montrachet label – there is no excuse…
 

Herbicide – Puligny-Montrachet
Candles – Puligny-Montrachet
Candles – Puligny-Montrachet
Straw – Puligny-Montrachet
Herbicide – Puligny-Montrachet
Tweet! – Puligny-Montrachet
Demoiselles – Puligny-Montrachet
Demoiselles – Puligny-Montrachet
Roche Dumay – St.Aubin
Over St.Aubin Les Champlots – towards Chassagne
Blagny – which way?
Chalon
Chalon
Chalon

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heading for a showdown…

By billn on April 02, 2019 #travels in burgundy 2019#vintage 2019

– with the weather!

The vines are only about 10 days ahead of the average – so-far – this year. The year has been incredibly dry too – you can walk in all the vineyards – the clay is hard and/or powder – or, more like pottery as one vigneron described it! But tonight it’s changing – rain is already falling – and the temperature will also do so. Today was 20°C – tomorrow may be below 10°C. There’s also the possibility of frost on Thursday evening.

So-far, apart from particular clones – 99% of leaves are held tightly within their buds – they won’t unduly be bothered by -2°C – but the precocious ones will be more borderline, particularly if it’s wet beforehand. In preparation, I saw candles already deployed in two young-vines sections in Puligny – climat Rue Rousseau (Just below Bienvenues but villages-rated) and 1er cru Clos de la Mouchère. Of-course, you could also go Hi-Tech with your own wind machine – it’s probably more environmentally friendly too!
 

Somone’s been having a nibble!
Nuits 1er Clos des Grandes Vignes
Puligny 1er Clos de la Mouchère
Puligny 1er Clos de la Garenne
Puligny 1er Clos de la Garenne
Getting windy in Meursault….
How high?

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the visits – week 12 2019…

By billn on March 25, 2019 #reports#travels in burgundy 2019

Above the ‘lucky’ winemakers I managed to visit last week on a whirlwind tour of practically the whole of (greater) Burgundy – I missed a little Mâcon, but there were representatives from the Auxerrois, Chablis, Côte de Nuits, Côte de Beaune, Côte de Chalonnais and the Beaujolais. 100 wines tasted blind too.

Included were some well-known faces that I couldn’t fit in at the end of last year, 8 new domaines – first visits – for me, plus blind tastings of Vézelay, Irancy and Beaujolais Blanc. Hyper interesting, and as a partner-piece to my tasting, last year, of 2017-2006 Chablis with DIAM seals, last week I did similar with screw-caps – in this case comparing with their cork-sealed analogues – most intriguing results too! All in the March Report…

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more pictures…

By billn on March 21, 2019 #travels in burgundy 2019

Views from the Côtes of Chalonnais, Beaune and Nuits today:
 

Currently at home in Fontaines…
The workbench…
Just under Clos des Issarts – high-training prepared…
Just under Clos des Issarts – high-training prepared…
New sign…
In Issarts
de Vogüé Amoureuses
Over Vougeot Clos de la Perrière towards Clos de Vougeot
Echézeaux
‘you lookin at me?’

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a few beaujolais views from today…

By billn on February 19, 2019 #travels in burgundy 2019

Which way?
17 generations of the same family…
Now THAT’s a tractor!
St.Joseph-en-Beaujolais – Chemin de Croix
St.Joseph-en-Beaujolais – Chemin de Croix
Col des Truges
The famous Truges Coq au Vin…
a nice one…
Which way now?
Moulin….
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week 2 of 3 in the beaujolais

By billn on February 17, 2019 #travels in burgundy 2019

Above the ‘lucky’ winemakers I visited on week 2 of my oddessy in Beaujolais – okay not so much of an oddessy – due to a couple of hitches I won’t quite reach a total of 50 domaines – but almost. I’m back for just two days of visits next week to sign-off on this month’s Beaujolais visits.

A week of practically perfect weather – frost in the night but finishing the week with 16°C in the afternoons – the butterfies are already on the wing – the forecast is for consistent weather for at least the next 10 days. Vigneron(ne)s are loving it – they can get into the vines and plough or prune, but the overnight frosts, despite the warmth of the afternoons, means that the vines are not yet stirring or currently weeping when pruned – the melting of the frost and then the re-freezing also helps to break-up and aerate the ground – particularly where there’s appreciable clay.

Anyway a few views from the end of this week, plus a quick visit to the foot of the Eiger, yesterday:
 

Jullié
Le Carra
Mürren
Mürren
Mürren
Mürren

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