Céline & Frédéric Gueguen – early 2020s
Tasted in their new shop in Chablis with Frédéric Gueguen, 23 July 2021. Domaine Céline et Frédéric Gueguen 31, Grande rue de Chablis 89800 Préhy Tel: +33 3 86 41 45 06 www.chablis-gueguen.fr More reports with Domaine… Read More
Céline & Frédéric Gueguen – 2019
Tasted in Préhy with Frédéric & Céline Gueguen, 13 January 2021. Domaine Céline et Frédéric Gueguen 31, Grande rue de Chablis 89800 Préhy Tel: +33 3 86 41 45 06 www.chablis-gueguen.fr More reports for Domaine Céline &… Read More
52x 2017 Petit Chablis
Tasted blind, at the BIVB office in Chablis, 08 January 2019. I didn’t do this tasting for the 2016 vintage because most of Petit Chablis had been badly frosted. That said, so was a lot of 2017 too! I have anyway renewed my acquaintance with this AOP… Read More
43x Irancy 2022 – Blind Tasted
Tasted blind, at the BIVB office in Chablis, 29 January 2024. These blind tastings are my great source of new names, and, of course, the wines were tasted blind. The sample order was completely random – the next bottle was the one closest to hand. The bottles were numbered and… Read More
a few recent wines to isolate with…
2017 François Carillon, St.Aubin 1er Pitangerets (Red) Like many from the south of the Côte d’Or in 2017 – no more than medium colour. Aromatically, here’s a lovely core… Read More
big weekend, week 9 2017
All the wines were tasted blind and then the label shown before the next wine. The last white and the reds with dinner – a nice salad, blanquette de veaux, pears in burgundy wine, cheese… 2014 Céline et Frédéric Gueguen, Côteaux Bourguignone Sacy A super saline, faintly… Read More
Saint Bris – 2013 – Irancy
I cleverly thought this ready for publishing and so didn’t have the key to the identities to reveal which bottles are which at the publishing time. I need 48 more hours to return to my Beaune office – oops! Sorry! EDIT: Now Fixed! I have quickly established Irancy as… 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
more weekend wines – week 27 2020
Even stretching into the start of week 28 😉 2019 Raphael Chopin, Beaujolais Funambule The no sulfur cuvée of declassified BJV A year ago this was so impressively delicious and juicy – a bravo wine. A year down the line it’s still delicious but just a… Read More