Alexandrine Roy has become a queen of personal marketing with regular updates and lovely photos through her Facebook presence. Of-course that would be self-defeating if the wines were only average – the wines are far from that, however. I visited Alexandrine, a fan of high-powered motorcycles, as the… Read More

Here’s a compendium of wines, mainly tasted with producers at the end of March 2012 – almost 200 wines – the bulk are culled from tastings put on for the Grands Jours de Bourgogne which happens every two years. I’ll start with a selection of wines from Beaune, followed by… Read More

In one page, a range of brilliant wines from the masters of their art in Beaune. As brilliant as the wines of Bellene and Jadot were, I’m even more thrilled to see the disappearance of the toasty oak from the BP&F reds – they are not better than the other… Read More

Pierre Naigeon is the fifth generation of his family to be based in Gevrey-Chambertin, making wine, but Naigeons had been there since at least the 1700s, working as farmers and barrel-makers. In 1890 the depressed wine market was in the grip of phylloxera so cooper, Fernand Naigeon, finding it… Read More

I’d been planning/hoping to visit for ages, but it seemed the home team was always too busy. Once an old contact from the days of Maison Nicolas Potel, Marco Caschera, took on a commercial role at the domaine, I pounced. I really enjoyed my visit, and the wines, but I… Read More

2011 A precocious vintage – only the sixth time on record that harvesting began in August – for the record (ex BIVB) the other vintages were: 1719, 1822, 1893, 2003 and 2007. Such was the vigour of growth in the vineyards that it was nigh-on impossible to visit some… Read More

Of-course the most important question you will have about this domaine is likely not about their vineyards practices, inclusion of stems or even their oak regime, but rather – how to pronounce their name? – well that was the most important question for me anyway! For the record; ‘Dee-Joy-er’… Read More

UPDATE: Spring 2012 – A selection of 2010s The redoubtable, indefatigable Pascal Marchand is back. In a Burgundy context Pascal’s talent was spotted and brought to the fore when the Comte Armand chose him to be winemaker at the Clos des Epeneaux in Pommard; that was in… Read More

Not quite the blast that was part 1 – just over 90 wines – probably fatigue was starting to set in! Here’s a compendium of wines tasted with producers between the 1st April 2011 and the end of June 2011. They are mainly 2009s – more and more… Read More