Tuesday September 6 – my Burgundy harvest day number 7
Mixed emotions on the Tuesday morning; our first bins of Corton-Charlemagne arrived about 08h00 and the grapes were resplendent – not too much to triage here! It was only about an hour later that we heard of the death, in the night, of Louis-Fabrice Latour – almost a youngster… Read More
Auxey-Duresses: Village Profile
When it comes to white wine recommendations and the common old question of ‘what’s a better value alternative to Puligny or Meursault?‘ my toes curl and my teeth grind when people, with an assured air of superior knowledge, authoritatively boom – ‘Oh you should look at St.Aubin!‘ Save for a… Read More
Côte de Nuits – mainly Gevrey-Chambertin
Domaine Guyard 10 rue du Puits de Tet 21160 Marsannay la Côte Tel: +33 3 80 52 14 46 www.alainguyard.com Alain has 8.5 hectares and is based in Marsannay. 2015 Marsannay A bright and wide red-fruited nose. Energy, nice fruit –… Read More
sharing the snow…
I think that today (apart from typing) I’m mainly re-posting pictures of snow in Burgundy! I’ve snow at home too, but in Switzerland, I’m back to Beaune on Sunday for the last two weeks of visits this year… Les chardonnay de Chablis sont sous… Read More
Random Ruminations
Prices It’s a gas P Flavescence 2014: What next… Prices Well, it’s the talk of the town; onwards and upwards is the only way – or so it currently seems. Burgundy, just like Bordeaux has seen boom and bust pricing over many generations – we current enjoy, or rather, the… Read More
Nuits Saint Georges: Village Profile
Despite having no Grand Crus to call its own, Nuits appended the name of its most important vineyard, Les St.Georges, on the 10th May 1892 to become Nuits-Saint-Georges – before that it was described as Nuits-sous-Beaune. When the railway came in 1849 the station here was… Read More
Just so many wines…
Here’s a compendium of wines tasted with producers between the 1st December 2010 and the end of March 2011. They are mainly 2009s and 2008s – I tasted lots of 2010s in this period, but far too early to make notes – there’s not much value telling you that Romanée-Conti… Read More
Round-up of wines tasted
No slurping or spitting! This is a compendium of wines that were drunk with food, friends and family, between April 2009 and the end of July 2009. 70 bottles are listed here, but there are another 155 dotted through this Summer Report that it didn’t make sense to list… Read More
Profile: Domaine Château de Gevrey-Chambertin (Gevrey)
August 2012: The owner of the Château de Gevrey-Chambertin, Elisabeth Masson-Mitéran, died in November 2011 and her heirs subsequently decidide to sell. It is now ‘official‘ that the Château has been sold to Chinese investors. Ordinarily this might cause a few mutterings, but the temperature has been raised… Read More