Burgundy Reports
A Burgundy Report EXTRA! subscription costs 85 Swiss Francs per year. Subscribe to Burgundy Report See what you’re missing, below… The 2019 Reports: March 2019All Styles:New names from Chablis2017 Beaujolais Blanc & Irancy, screw-caps & more…… Read More
Remoissenet – 2012s
Tasted with Claudie Jobard and Bernard Repolt in Beaune, 08 Jan, 2014. The work to make a new (grape) reception area is now completed, and they even have parking now! In addition to parking spaces, they have taken-on a new fermage arrangement which, from the 2013 vintage, will contribute wines… Read More
dinner-time surprises…
A trip to Germany this week, brought a wealth of wine riches. The following were tasted blind with dinner and each was unveiled only after writing my notes: 2004 Romanée-Conti, La Tâche A beautiful floral nose with an… Read More
last weekend’s bottles…
A modest, but very tasty set of wines that accompanied DVDs and popcorn (amongst other choice materials…) It’s nice to reflect on the diversity of wines; here the lovely Passetoutgrains probably cost not much more than 10 Euros, but (on a different price level) last night I was… Read More
audrey says ‘pinot noir’ (and other stories…)
I started not knowing what to think, but you know, it’s growing on me, mainly because of how it finishes 🙂 A couple of (more) ‘traditional’ wine communications: Eric Rousseau – the man who says no… Putting the bubbles in Romanée-Conti – but who says they were… Read More
Profile: Domaine David Moreau (Santenay)
Taking the road up the hill, towards the Château, from the central square in Santenay, you will see on your right the signs for the producer ‘Jean Moreau’. The business has changed hands, even if the location and signs have not. Domaine Jean Moreau started life in Santenay-le-Haut but moved… Read More
random ruminations…
There’s (clearly) not much of a concept for this particular ‘Report’, rather a collecton of happenstance visits and chance meetings. But watch out, the focus of the Summe issue will be sharp beyond belief 😉 Pricing and the rise of the competent burgundy Shark-Infested Waters The rise… Read More
Profile: Domaine Pierre Naigeon (Gevrey)
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
ramonet 2009 bourgogne pinot noir – plus drc 09
Okay; this is the last of my 09 Bourgogne Rouge excursion – for a while anyway. Time to revisit a favourite and put it into context with the other 09s recently ‘downed’. 2009 Ramonet, Bourgogne Pinot Noir ‘Nomacorked’. This… Read More