To give you a little colour and flavour from the last days in the Côtes…
Travels in Burgundy 2026
Chablis in February…
It’s business as usual in Chablis – the volumes of 2025s, whilst rarely testing the limits are providing some balsam for the pain of the 2024 volumes. But the 2024s are tasting great.
The weather is, of course, variable and borderline frost each morning. So to give you the impression that it is always sunny in Chablis:
Last week in the Côtes + Seismic gossip !!
My first week of tasting – after publishing my 137 domaine visits the week before.
No surprise – not a lot of sunshine – but it was good to rejuvenate the taste buds before the coming 3 weeks of visits in Chablis 😉
But a big surprise was the monumental gossip that I picked up – and from 2 different sources.
I will choose to remain a little cryptic – as I already lost the possibility to visit some domaines due to publishing a previous gossip – despite it turning out to be true 🙂 However:
It’s been about 7-8 years since the last, quite similar rumour. There’s a very famous domaine in St.Romain, whose wines precious few people have ever tasted. It seems that the movers and shakers of a famous leather-goods seller have recently been ever-present at the domaine. If you are on my wavelength, then you will know that St.Romain will not be the only production entity to be affected.
Of course, it was going to happen sooner, rather than later, and potential purchasers are few and far between…

























