Profile: Maison Ambroise – 2013
Tasted in Premeaux with Ludovine Ambroise, 2nd February 2015. Maison Ambroise 8, rue de l’Eglise 21700 Premeaux Prissey Tel: +33 3 80 62 30 19 www.ambroise.com Today it is sister and brother, Ludivine and François, that are taking more of the responsibility, but father Bertrand… Read More
ambroise: a carbonated beverage or wine?
I cannot lie, these days I’m having a bit of a love-hate relationship with dissolved CO2 in young wines – I can only love the wines when it’s gone – before I hate them…! 2009 Maison Ambroise, Bourgogne… Read More
offer of the day – bertrand ambroise…
DOMAINE BERTRAND AMBROISE 2010 CÔTE DE NUITS VILLAGES 2010 75cl 18.00 (Swiss francs) NUITS-SAINT-GEORGES 2010 75cl 29.00 VOSNE-ROMANÉE 2010 75cl 38.00 NUITS-SAINT-GEORGES Les Vaucrains 2010 75cl 46.00 CORTON Le Rognet Grand Cru 2010 75cl 65.00 CORTON Le Rognet Grand Cru 2010 150cl 135.00 CLOS DE VOUGEOT… Read More
just a few recent wines…
As Dan and Mike, in the comments, were interested. Here are some notes from a previous post plus some other bottles too: 2019 Berthaut-Gerbet, Bourgogne Hautes Côted de Nuits Medium-plus colour. Perfumed with dark-red fruit. Nicely sweeping lines from this middle-weight wine, a wine that was drunk in… Read More
2020 Red Burgundy
2019 Red Burgundy Part 1: (Here) The Côte d’Or – December 2021 2020 Red Burgundy Part 2: Beaujolais – February 2022 Beaune 1er Belissand 21 August 2020… What about the 2020 reds in the Côte d’Or? 2018-2020 are a trio of, historically, hot… Read More
2017 Value Whites – the BIVB’s Cave Prestige 2019…
The winners… The 48th year that the BIVB have assembled their annual ‘cave prestige;’ the process consists of two tasting panels – a smaller one doing the first triage and larger group who provide the final thumbs up. Read More
A Bourgogne Côte d’Or?
I’ve discussed it before, but this is a new label that you might come across for the first time with the 2017 vintage. People have been proposing this label for almost 20 years but now it’s done – and it’s for both the reds and… Read More
2017 Red Burgundy Report
Quite frankly, 2017 is the most complex, the most variable, red wine vintage that I’ve ever tasted.* I believe that this is largely down to the volumes – i.e. the yields – at harvest time. Some volumes were ridiculously high, others merely high, whilst the best producers –… Read More
young talents 2018
The big tasting was this week, and here for your interest is the list of nominees for the trophy in each category. Some are well-known to readers of Burgundy Report, some naturally, are new. There will be a ‘taste-off’ with the trophy’s main judges – this year Olivier Poussier and… Read More