a book of french wines, p.morton shand (1960)
Whilst this book actually covers 399 pages, I’m basing this discussion only on the 59 page section about Burgundy – including appendices. Despite my skin-deep approach, this book can be truly described as a reference work for its time. My copy is a 1960 reprint from the original 1928 work,… Read More
a stroke of luck…
[No photos – to protect the innocent!] I was in London last Friday and it didn’t start all that well; a planned lunch with Neal Martin (he of the dark-side) and Linden Wilkie (The Fine Wine Experience) went awol – Neal (suffering jet-lag) and Linden (just suffering)… Read More
random ruminations…
The Market During the last couple of weeks in November, and against a backdrop of falling markets, credit crunches and daily announcements of more ‘job cuts’, I canvassed opinion from a number of well-known merchants in the UK. Pretty consistently they told me that from steady sales throughout the… Read More
Profile: Domaine d’Eugénie (Vosne-Romanée)
Okay, first things first – why Eugénie? Well it is the name of the grandmother of François Pinault – or maybe we should now say François Pinot, owner of Château Latour. The untimely passing of Philippe Engel found a family with no natural successor that eventually decided to… Read More
A Vintage Viewpoint
2008 Well the worry is over and quite a number of vignerons can feel happy. Those that do, have two things to thank: tireless vineyard work (spraying, spraying and spraying again against rot) and the sunshine weather of the last two weeks of September. Equivalent cold and wet conditions… Read More
monday 29th update
Domaine de la Vougeraie have their harvest log now online. Moving on, let’s start with today’s update from Mark in Morey: Bonjour, Petit dejeuner day 3 a Domaine Arlaud vendange 08. Thought we had done a fair chunk of Bourgogne Rouge on day 1 mais non !! We… Read More
Roundup of Wines Tasted
‘Only’ 83 wines for you in this list – I was too busy to drink! From memory only one corked bottle… Regional Wines 2005 Bertagna, Bourgogne Hautes Côtes de Nuits Les Dames Huguettes Medium, medium-plus cherry red. Frankly I don’t like the nose – it’s quite… 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
training in the cold
I got back yesterday from Klosters where I was putting in a bit of ‘training’ (rather too-grand a word) for next weekend’s Inferno Rennen in Mürren. Starting just below the revolving restaurant on the Schilthorn – made famous by George Lazenby as 007 – it’s a 15km downhill… Read More