weekend wines – week 9 2022
Quite a mix – also my reactions versus my expectations too! 2020 Georges Duboeuf, Pouilly-Fuissé 1er Clos Reyisser The Duboeuf family actually do own vines here and whilst the label and corks seem to indicate it might have been made at their factory, here is actually a… Read More
2018 Beaujolais: ‘This time the weather was with us!‘
2018 was a year with an early harvest and not much, but regular, rain after the 15th June – so the vines didn’t suffer from drought. It was ‘mainly’ too dry for the maladies in the summer, though. 2018 is the first vintage for a number of… Read More
Remembering Mr Beaujolais
2014 Michet et Sylvain Tète – Clos du Fief, Juliénas Cuvée Prestige I’m in Chablis today – the start of my 60(+) domaine tour of 2018s – but before I left Swaziland I decided yesterday evening to remember Georges Duboeuf with this very impressive Beaujolais – but… Read More
2017 Beaujolais Blanc
And the winners were… All blind-tasted in Villefranche-sur-Saône, 22 March 2019. The Summary: 61 wines tasted blind, though tasted in the order 1) Beaujolais Blanc and then 2) Beaujolais Villages Blanc – it was by pure chance that my picks were equally split between each… Read More
Brouilly & Côte de Brouilly – 2017 (2016, 2015…)
Tasted in the offices of InterBeaujolais in Villefranche, 19 and 20 July 2018. What was already apparent last November when tasting 142 2017 Nouveaus, was confirmed by this early tasting of 2017s from Brouilly and Côte de Brouilly: Clearly 2017 is a ripe and concentrated vintage in… Read More
Profile: Château de Saint Amour
Tasted in St.Amour with Pierre Siraudin, his metayeur André Berrod and Romain Teyteau (not in the picture, of Duboeuf), 13 July 2017. Château de Saint Amour les Guillons 71570 Saint-Amour-Bellevue It was the Georges Duboeuf labelled wine that I found so good – but there is a… 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
2015 Chiroubles
Tasted in Villefranche, 06 April 2017. The appellation of Chiroubles has something of a problem at the moment – but it’s not a wine quality problem – as can be seen from the tasting that follows – the average quality of these wines was certainly higher than that… Read More
2015 Régnié
Tasted in Villefranche, 06 April 2017. The village of Régnié-Durette has less than 1,000 inhabitants and gives its name to the Beaujolais cru of Régnié. An area of 750 hectares are delimited as AOP Régnié, of which around 600 hectares are planted and further of which 428 hectares… Read More