If you are ‘in town’ for the Hospices weekend, then this really looks not bad; good food and some proper wine…
Full infos here.
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offer of the day – henri boillot 2015s…
Well, this retailer is back on the email trail – it was only in August that they made an offer of the 2014s from this producer.
I won’t make this list even more unintelligible than the prices in the link above, I’ll just bring it down to the 2015 and the 2014 prices as a comparison:
VILLAGES BLANCS 2015
BOURGOGNE Chardonnay 75cl 23.00 (22.00 – price for the 2014) Swiss francs
MEURSAULT 75cl 45.00 (44.00)
Saint Aubin 75 cl 34.00 (32.00)
PULIGNY-MONTRACHET 75cl 49.00 (48.00)
PREMIERS CRUS BLANCS 2014
MEURSAULT Les Charmes 75cl 78.00
MEURSAULT Les Genevrières 75cl 99.00 (79.50)
MEURSAULT Les Perrières 75cl 99.00 (89.50)
Puligny Les Perrières 75 cl 89.50 (79.50)
Puligny Les Combettes 75 cl 99.00 (89.50)
Puligny Les Folatières 75 cl 99.00 (89.50)
PULIGNY-MONTRACHET Clos de La Mouchère 75cl 89.50
PULIGNY-MONTRACHET Les Pucelles 75cl 99.00
GRANDS CRUS BLANCS 2014
CORTON CHARLEMAGNE 75cl 145.00 (139.00)
CRIOTS BÂTARD MONTRACHET 75cl 268.00 (249.00)
BIENVENUES BÂTARD MONTRACHET 75cl 349.00 (319.00)
BÂTARD MONTRACHET 75cl 419.00 (389.00)
MONTRACHET 75cl 698.00
VILLAGE & PREMIERS CRUS ROUGES 2014
VOLNAY 75cl 46.00
Volnay Les Chevrets 75 cl 78.00 (73.00)
VOLNAY Les Caillerets 75cl 89.50 (79.50)
POMMARD Les Rugiens 75cl 89.50 (79.50)
GRANDS CRUS ROUGES 2014
CLOS DE VOUGEOT 75cl 139.00 (129.00)
BONNES-MARES 75cl 248.00 (229.00)
The 2014s went down a little vs the previous highest prices for the 2012 vintage. The 2015s return to the 2012 prices, or even higher!
to the east or golden? – the côte d’or
 :Yesterday looking down on Volnay and Pommard
There are competing possibilities as to why the Côte d’Or is called the Côte d’Or.
Yesterday afternoon – even without sunshine – showed why so many people consider d’Or to mean gold – the golden slope – but of-course it lasts, at best, for only a couple of weeks per year before all the vines’ leaves are on the floor.
I personally believe that it is a contraction of Côte d’Orient – meaning an east-facing hillside – which the Côte d’Or is. I’ve seen enough middle-ages maps – including of Burgundy – with Côte d’Orient in script on them to persuade me that this is a more valid reason. But this week, at least, I’m also very comfortable with gold!
Volnay Santenots
Volnay Santenots
On the hill between Volnay and Pommard
On the hill between Volnay and Pommard
On the hill between Volnay and Pommard
ardhuy & bouchard aîné – doors opening and closing…
Vincent Bottreau, currently the winemaker at Bouchard Aîné has been confirmed as the new winemaker at Domaine Ardhuy. Vincent tells me that he’s hoping to be in place by mid-December.
Of-course this all started with:
- David Croix moving from Camille Giroud to Jean-Marc Roulot
- Carel Voorhuis moving from Ardhuy to Camille Giroud
- Now Vincent Bottreau moving from Bouchard Aîné to Ardhuy
- So, who next will be moving from ‘xxxx‘ to Bouchard Aîné?
The Boisset group have a habit of employing young new talent, so I’m looking forward to see who will be stepping in Vincent’s shoes!
Anyway, Carel, who has been working part-time at Camille Giroud during the harvest should be fully installed in November – so I have to visit him before that date in Ardhuy, and until December to visit Vincent at Bouchard Aîné – to look at their last vintages – the 2015s…
all meursault in the morning…
Looking towards Puligny this morning…
My first appointment this morning was at 08h00 and in Meursault. And after the torrents of rain yesterday, it was not just dark it was still quite damp. But from the road to Nantoux, just before Pommard, we had low cloud – let’s call it fog! I emerged from Anoine Jobard’s cellar at closer to 09h00, and it was now daylight, and most of the fog had gone – though it seemed to be heading south as I picked it up again in Puligny heading for my coffee.
I love the play of light on one part of the vines as you drive – I tried to take a short video – but re-running it later, it seems I drove a little too fast 🙂
Meursault Rouge!
nearly all weekend beaune…
Saturday was lovely, but it was mainly overcast on Sunday – the vines still looking good though:
Sunny Saturday…
Saturday night’s for singing…!
Spot the clone? Cent Vignes
Tuissants below, Bressandes above…
Les Fevres…
Les Fevres…
Over Fevres towards Beaune…
Over Fevres towards Bressandes and Grèves…
Over Fevres towards Bressandes and Grèves…
Coucherias…
Les Teurons
just a little puligny today…
advini buy maison champy
Quite an important announcement I think – at a time with very few transactions:
http://www.winespectator.com/webfeature/show/id/Burgundy-Wine-Producer-Maison-Champy-Sold
Advini are also the owners of Domaine Laroche in Chablis – and frankly, despite their ‘factory size’ Laroche have been making outstanding wines for a few years now. Smaller Champy will have much to benefit from, I think…
Returning to my ‘very few transactions’ comment. Burgundy pricing, including land prices are at historic highs, so Advini must have paid a very good (high!) price for this entry into the Côte d’Or. It seems that they have a lot of confidence!
And here is the press-release from Advini:
a little santenay, chassagne & bâtard…
Bâtard
An on/off rain day today. Today is also the start of my visits to taste 2015s – as usual, commencing with ‘mainly white’ domaines. Today taking in a little Puligny and Santenay, with obligatory photo-stops along the way…
Santenay Clos Bellefond…
‘M’ – the guardian of the (ex) pink pig…
Chassagne Abbaye de Morgeot
Montrachet
Bâtard…
Bâtard…
Bâtard…