paddling…
Like a duck paddling away below the surface I’m trying to give the impression of everything being serene above the waist. The fact is the next Burgundy Report (already the 8th year!) is coming together in a much more orderly/timely fashion than usual – in fact you will only have… Read More
2001 Fevre William Chablis Le Clos
Chalk and cheese versus the 01 Leflaive Bourgogne – actually (way back when) this wine was only about 10% more expensive than the Leflaive. Sharper, finer, still quite ripe but a wine of focus and precision. If anything the Leflaive had more overt concentration, but not the intensity. Share this:… Read in the Note Finder
offer of the day – DRC 2007 & 09 en-primeur price-drop…
First there was Henri Boillot 2008, then Leflaive 2008 – though apparently the latter didn’t like seeing it in print here – now, fresh in it’s Louis Latour 2009. 20% sounds a lot, but it only brings prices roughly back down to (depending on who) vintage 2004… Read More
offer of the day – Jacques Prieur 2008…
Vins blancs PULIGNY-MONTRACHET Les Combettes 75cl 69.00 Swiss francs (78.00) MEURSAULT Perrières 75cl 98.00 (109.00) CORTON CHARLEMAGNE 75cl 109.50 (128.00) CHEVALIER-MONTRACHET 75cl 198.00 (219.00) MONTRACHET 75cl 388.00 (399.00) Vins rouges CLOS DE VOUGEOT 75cl 99.00 (109.00) CHAMBERTIN 75cl 149.00 (159.00)… 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
just an average day-trip to burgundy…
Aubert de Villaine - after being made to wait in the cold!Monday was just your average away-day to Burgundy: 5:30am – Alarm, cereal, wash, shave then eventually open my eyes. 6:25am – In the car and away. Plenty of rain as we went through the ‘Doubs’ and around Besançon. If… Read More
a day job in Burgundy
While in Burgundy earlier this year we met a lot of new friends and contacts. While in Puligny Montrachet we met Olivier Leflaive. I had read about his hotel and wine bar on wineterroirs.com, a link that Bill links to from this blog. Upon stepping into the hotel looking for… 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
Beaune is where the Heart is
Before visiting Burgundy, one question bugged me. ‘If I do find grapes, where in the world am I going to make the wine?’ The production of wines in Burgundy are so low that you cannot expect to find much room if any to make wine short of buying a domaine… Read More