Chassagne overground
Chassagne overground
Meursault overground
Meursault underground
Meursault underground
Beaune – on the table…
And on the table, that was just the reds 😉
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23rd – a busy day….
3 little somethings from the last weekend…
I should really post my weekend wines – before I forget them! – eh? Particularly as the Jadot is second only to the ’71 Chambertin this year…
2007 L+A Lignier, Morey St.Denis 1er Cuvée Romain Lignier
Relatively deep colour for an 07. The nose is pure, deep Morey and I like the weight. In the mouth there’s also plenty of weigh, the dark fruit coming in waves. Balanced, expressive and drinking rather well. Lovely wine.
Rebuy – Yes
2010 Rapet, Pernand-Vergelesses 1er Ile des Vergelesses
A wine with a complex, herby, sometimes green sometimes fruit nose – move from a Spiegelau Zalto Universal lookalike to a Riedel pinot Vinum and this shows more bass notes and more weight of fruit aroma. In the mouth there’s a textural roundness, balance and then a fine extra dimension of 1er cru flavour in the mid-palate and finish. Very good!
Rebuy – Yes
1993 Domaine Louis Jadot, Clos de Vougeot
Ouf! Now we are talking – a simply beautiful, mature, complex and really quite forward nose. In the mouth this has great texture until the tannin exerts a little grip in the mid-palate but that’s a fleeting impression as the flavour then literally explodes over the tongue and into the finish – wow indeed. This really needs all of another 10 years for full maturity, but what a wine. Magnificent…
Rebuy – Yes
an autumnal impression today…
Whilst I covered plenty of the c̫tes again today, it was at a little more leisurely pace Рjust three appointments, though the first was well over 2 hours Рso perhaps that was just as well!
It was looking just a little more Autumnal today…
Autumnal Clos de Vougeot…
Over Champans and Ronceret…
Meursault…
taxing appointments
No that’s not François Hollande’s new ruse!
I started in the south, and slowly worked north today. Vigneron(ne)s in Chassagne, then Beaune, then the Hautes Còtes de Nuits then Gevrey. 12°C and a lovely light again today, until about 4pm when the cloud was in the ascendant.
All is dry, even my jog tonight, though trying to juggle/fit/squeeze over 70 producer appointments plus half a dozen larger tastings into my Oct/Nov/Dec schedule is more mentally taxing than 7km of running in 30 mins – of that I can assure you 😉
The lower part of Chassagne Clos St.Jean
The last vines of Clos St.Jean, before Chaumées and Vergers
Curtil-Vergey
Curtil-Vergey
Curtil-Vergey
Curtil-Vergey
meursault & puligny today
going up the mountain…
the producers of week 42…
both côtes, in the dry…
Cool, certainly, but no rain or snow today. I’ve visited a dozen or-so producers today and have had great discussions – you can see a few pics here – up to mid-week -but now it’s the weekend!
One view today in Fixin (below), the rest taken between Santenay and Chassagne.
Just the one from Fixin…
la première neige…
No we are not in Val d’Isère today, but at 8am it was 3°C and raining in the Beaune, but in the Hautes Côtes, there were reports of snow-flakes – later I saw the pictures from Marsannay too. It would have been kind of cool to get a pic of golden and red leaved vines with snowflakes – but I had an appointment, so…
Just one visit this morning so I’m keeping the fingers warm by typing this afternoon, but Meursault was a little different to the last two days…
Over Tessons towards Meursault…
Over Casse Têtes and Clous towards Tillets…
Getting wet!
PS: A good interview by Laurent – in French – but use Google translate if you like…