weekend wines – week 42 2022
Disappointingly, I’m at home this week*: A cold that developed over the weekend has left me coughing like a horse – not a good look while trying to taste wines retailing for $1,000 a bottle – even when triple-negative tested! Only about 15 domaine visits to be rescheduled… Read More
some missing wines
Well, there have been a few that I haven’t mentioned. Starting with a cha-cha-cha phase that was followed with a bit more Cha! Chambollow, Chiroubles, Chenas and then more from Chambolle: First up was Pauline Passot’s 2019 Chiroubles Claudius Lighter colour than I remember –… Read More
A tour de Moulin à Vent
Ch Moulin à Vent Moulin à Vent Ch Moulin à Vent Ch Moulin à Vent Ch Moulin à Vent Our venue was the Château Moulin… Read More
A century of Moulin à Vent
Tasted in the Château Pizay, 12 October 2017. A press trip organised by the producers’ union of Moulin à Vent – a century of wines – that’s 100 wines, not 100 years! Despite my general reservations about ‘press trips’ this was perfectly executed with a small number… Read More
2016+2015(+) Almost 50 Saint Amours – tasted blind…
48 wines, tucked up in their little jackets and tasted blind on 06 July 2017 in Villefranche… Together with Julienas, St.Amour is the most northerly of the Beaujolais Crus – tread a few metres more to the north and you are in the Mâconnais. I chose this tasting… Read More
Moulin à Vent – 34 wines
A nice tasting of Moulin à Vent producers’ wines in the grounds of the Château Moulin à Vent. It was a hot day so the producers were fighting to keep their wines at a decent temperature, but it was still a good opportunity to meet some new producers… 2015 Domaine… Read More
les bottles de la weekend (week 20)
Vincent Audras, ‘Verigoude’ Viognier (Beaujolais) The producer thrust this bottle into my hand, after I told him I’d prefer just to taste just his reds – ‘try it over the weekend‘ he said. I’d already mentioned that I wasn’t the best person to review Viognier, as it isn’t… Read More
2019 Beaujolais: ‘it doesn’t show the sun as much as we were expecting’
2019 Red Burgundy Part 1: Côte de Beaune – November 2020 2019 Red Burgundy Part 2: Côte de Nuits – December 2020 2019 Red Burgundy Part 3: (Here) Beaujolais – February 2021 2019 delivered a more classic timing for the… Read More
beaujolais – bbb – easy-pizay…
Looking towards the Côte de Brouilly from Pizay (Morgon) Tasted today at Bien-Boire-en-Beaujolais A quick-fire 43 bottles, starting with a section of new stuff from domaines that I largely don’t know, followed by some ‘old stuff’ from a mix of known and unknown domaines. I… Read More