The others tasted…
No slurping or spitting! These wines were (in the main) really drunk, and mostly at home with food and friends between November 2005 and March 2006… I’ve added the following icon to each description as a link to winesearcher to help you find wines if your interest has been woken…… Read More
Profile: Domaine Jacques-Frédéric Mugnier (Chambolle)
The Mugniers originally hailed from Dijon. A successful 1800’s ‘liquor’ business was their platform to purchase in 1863 the Château de Chambolle-Musigny; an impressive bourgeois residence in the village of Chambolle – the house also happened to come with a modest 4 hectares of vineyards – modest in size… Read More
romanée-conti 2003 – bottling sunshine
Is it a little boring to showcase the same wines at the start of each year? It can be, but provided there is method to this ‘madness’ then we can remain relatively content. When we talk of the wines of the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, it is not so much… Read More
random ruminations…
The Côte d’Or in winter: Take some dormant vines on a hillside, add a little snow here, add a little frost there – it can look so picturesque. The vineyards resemble old black and white lithographs from wood-cuts or the pencil lines on an artist’s sketchpad – but those photos… Read More
16. Terroir: It’s all very simple…
It’s hard to talk about terroir without getting people hot under the collar. Whether believers or non-believers the debate invariably sinks to the comfort-zones of entrenched positions, but let me put it like this: Basic Terroir Just like people, vines also have their own comfort-zones; defined by… Read More
12. Drinking the stuff…
If you are sufficiently interested, there is a significant body of blah, blah that you could read in order to augment your knowledge of the region and perhaps oil the process of buying of Burgundy. In the end, however, it all comes down to you, your glass and a bottle… Read More
13. A technical glossary
05. Burgundy in context…
France accounts for approximately 11% of the world’s vineyards. Within France, Bordeaux is the king with just over 20% of the vines, second place is a close run thing between Cognac, the Rhône and the Loire, each having 12-13% of the total. In the next place is ‘Greater Burgundy’ with… Read More
03. The grapes of Burgundy
Ex-BIVB, 2018 – it doesn’t include Beaujolais, but it’s a pretty image! The truth is out – Burgundy wine is not just red, it can be white or rosé, it can even be fizzy. Principally in ‘northern Burgundy’ it is about pinot noir and… Read More