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The January 2019 (subscription) Burgundy Report is online – HERE – Learn all about the 2017 and the 2018 vintages in Chablis from the producers – plus notes on 2,425 wines – so far – in all my 2017 reporting!
For those who were asking, here’s the difference between (very ripe) pinot noir and pinot gris – locally called pinot beurot – from Charmes-Chambertin today. [2x life-size] We wake to rain – not particularly heavy, but unyielding. It’s still raining when our first truck of grapes arrives from Gevrey-Chambertin – avec nos Charmes-Chambertin – I […]
Lavaux St.Jacques. The finishing-line is in sight now, but today we’re just going to focus on more Marsannay Les Longeroies and one of Gevrey’s bigger guns – Lavaux St.Jacques. Still, it won’t be very much fun cutting grapes today, due to multiple showers of rain overnight – but by 09h00 the streets and pavements of […]
Found on a single vine in Ladoix – there were other bunches, green like chardonnay with a fainter pink skin, but none of those were ripe. This almost all pink was ripe and sweet, with little extra flavour to define it though. It showed a very open bunch structure with large (minimum 2cm) grapes (melons). […]
Subtitled: Start your day with Santenay! I had some great photos lined-up today, but due to the health and safety issues involved, I thought it just as well to keep the camera ‘holstered!’ Another healthy, clean tranche of grapes this morning – all from Santenay. There were only two or three isolated clusters with oïdium, […]
Arlaud Vendange Day 3 – Weds 9th Sept 2015 Quick recap back to day two – did I mention in referencing the Morey Village that such included Morey Clos Solon ? It did/does, where I believe Arlaud both own vines but certainly have negoce fruit available. The Clos Solon fruit we harvested Tuesday was top […]