The weather is hot, so the wines are not! Hardly a drop of red has passed my lips in the last week – let’s call it a holiday – no comment on the whites though. Two more ‘app’ pages are complete, Montrachet/Chevalier and Nuits.
Cheers
Two more appellations
Chassagne-Montrachet and Gevrey-Chambertin have been added to the list. Only another 34 to do…
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New pages & updates
Two new appellation pages; Corton and Puligny-Montrachet are completed, plus an update of the Links page – another 20+ links to producers added.
The NoteFinder page seems popular – over 20% of all the site’s traffic in the last week – and consistently pushing unique visitor numbers above 500 per day since launched.
Cheers
NoteFinder – Launched
Finally launched after a 2 years thinking and 3 months gestation. Hopefully no rough edges – if so let me know.
Here I can link all that peripheral information to a tasting note; Producer profile (if I’ve done one), the producer’s website (if they have one), appellation information for the wine (if I’ve done that) and finally a profile of the village – admittedly mainly an (additional) opportunity for work on my part.
I will upload notes to this on roughly a monthly basis, the ‘other wines tasted’ page in the Burgundy-Report issues will remain as this will be the only place to view all the most recent bottles in one place.
Enjoy…
Varia…
The last dotting of ‘i’s and crossing of ‘t’s is being done on the NoteFinder, hopefully it will get the launch fanfare in the next 3-4 days. This work actually shows up the gaps in other areas, so I’m finally (also!) knuckling-down to getting on with the appellation reference. Chablis and Grand Cru Chablis and finally Corton-Charlemagne have been added to the appellation page. Many more are required, but 2 or 3 per week should see this completed over the summer.
Hopefully I will eventually have time to write about some of my latest visits(!) Château Matroye, J-F Mugnier, Mischief & Mayhem, Comte Liger-Belair, Camille Giroud etc…
Cheers
NoteFinder
Take a look, kick the tyres – let me know what’s not working. A couple of cosmetic ‘enhancements’ will come on-stream before I do an official ‘launch mailing’ late next week.
Hopefully it will work with more than 1 person at once (I don’t know…) trying to get at stuff. Effectively in one page you can access most of the Burgundy-Report, domaine websites, domaine profiles, appellation profiles and of-course the wine tasting notes. That’s the plan anyway!
Email me at the address at the foot of this page if you can’t make it work, it doesn’t work or you don’t like how it works etc. and I’ll see what I can do
https://www.burgundy-report.com/finder.aspx
Cheers, Bill
A few days in the Côtes
BBC weather forecast was a washout – literally – fortunately the days on either-side were more than passable. Get up at 8:00am and you’ll find that many have been in the vines already for almost 2 hours – they are still at it at 8:00pm – I’m happy enough to watch!
The vines were about 2-3 weeks behind the average schedule due to the cold winter, but seem to be catching up. A ton of material now to be written-up, oh and my developer is on holiday leaving a bug in the system – so at least a week before the note-finder is deployed – c’est la vie!
Cheers
NoteFinder – A Sneak Preview
I’m very happy with what I have sofar – my developer has done a great interpretation job.
Unfortunately I have an even bigger ‘content’ job ahead of me.
The NoteFinder links to lots of other potentially useful things such as appellation factsheets, producer websites and profiles within Burgundy-Report – and that’s not all!
This all means (of-course) that I have no time left to eat or drink!
Cheers
Note Finder and Outages
It all seemed to be going so well – site was migrated, note-finder database coming along ‘swimmingly’ – all was well.
Then last week my ‘hosters’ had some harddisk malfunctions and the site was gone for almost 2 days – then bits were missing and the stats still don’t work. Not really a fine start…
Anyway, I expect a bit of ‘beta testing’ for some poor unsuspecting ‘friends’ at the end on next week and going live at the end of the month. Gotta have a target!
Cheers, Bill