Round-up of wines tasted
No slurping or spitting! This is a compendium of wines that were drunk with food, friends and family, between August 2009 and mid-December 2009. Regional Wines (8) Villages Wines (19) Premier Cru Wines (28) Grand Cru Wines (17) REGIONAL WINES 2007 Albert Bichot, Bourgogne Vieilles Vignes… Read More
Random ruminations…
The Market A trade source tells me that there are significant quantities of 2003, 2004 and 2006 that are still in the ‘pipeline’, and with hardly any 2007s sold, the coming 2008 en-primeur campaign could be very messy – that’s before you factor-in whether January will still be too… 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
Roundup of Wines Tasted
No slurping or spitting! This is a compendium of wines that were drunk with food, friends and family, between December 2008 and the end of March 2009. Just over 60 bottles are listed here, but there are another 219 dotted through this Spring Report that it didn’t make sense… Read More
2008 harvest, lowest since 2003…
A bookend on 2008 from the BIVB: The 2008 Burgundy harvest is down 5.3 % on the 2007 harvest, and 4.4% against the average of the past five years. It amounts to the equivalent of 193 million bottles for a virtually unchanged production area (-0.2 %) of 27,626 hectares. Read More
update thursday 25th sept
The weather is holding, so now it’s time to get serious. Here are a few early reports: DOMAINE LOUIS CHENU ET FILLES We started this morning with (Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er) Les Talmettes. We did a grapes selection, we have very few rotten grapes, but we have to check maturity. Read More
Morey Saint Denis: Village Profile
Once upon a time, nearly 1,000 years ago… a terrible famine struck the area and people of Morey. They were already wine-makers, but had little to feed themselves – no cows, just a few chickens. At that time the forest of Cîteaux was close by and, on the other side… Read More
vines: bought and sold…
From the BIVB: Maison Louis Latour arrives in Régnié Owned by Maison Louis Latour since early 2008, Henri Fessy (St-Jean-d’Ardières) has bought up 15 hectares of the Château des Reyssiers vineyard in Régnié (69). Maison Fessy now owns 35 hectares of vineyard. The aim of the chairman and managing… Read More
Round-up of wines tasted
No slurping or spitting! Normally this is a compendium of wines that, in the main, are really drunk with food, friends and family, but I would say about two thirds of this issue’s are from tastings, all though between December 2007 and March 2008. A higher incidence of corked… Read More