Jean Chartron – 2013
Tasted in Puligny with Jean-Michel Chartron, the 8th October, 2014. Domaine Jean Chartron 8 Bis Grande Rue 21190 Puligny-Montrachet Tel: +33 3 80 21 99 19+33 3… Read More
Profile: Domaine Jean Chartron (Puligny)
Before visiting this domaine, I’d met Jean-Michel Chartron a number of times, usually as one of ‘Les Trois Barbouzes’ – an informal grouping of the domaines Chartron, Olivier and Seguin-Manuel – all at the time wearing beards (barbouzes!) of-course. Whilst it’s quite some time since you met two of… Read More
chartron’s 2011 puligny-montrachet…
A wine! Yes, it’s been over 2 weeks, and I’m still not on perfect form, but good enough to appreciate this one! 2011 Jean Chartron, Puligny-Montrachet Medium golden-yellow. My nose isn’t 100%, but this seems clean-cut and minerally. Read More
chartron & coche-dury in chassagne
Three of us decidied it would be a white wine night at the at the restaurant Le Chassagne. The service was both excellent and friendly, the wines were very well priced and the food was very well presented – but like our choice of wines, the food was good rather… Read More
BIVB Cave de Prestige 2022
Since 1971, and from Chablis to Mâcon, the Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB) has been selecting cuvées to illustrate the wines of Burgundy all around the world and to be used during the BIVB’s promotional and training activities. 2022 was the 51st awards ceremony for what has become know as the… Read More
this week’s wines, including ‘Who is the new Domaine René Engel?’
Dinner with friends in Pommard and some lovely, eclectic, wines. The first bottle was a lovely 2011 Comtes Champagne – with some lovely menthol aromatic complexity. Then came the: 2012 Fontaine-Gagnard, Le Montrachet Deeper colour and the first nose was more monolithic – some sulfur-reduction hardening things… Read More
wines of weekend 26 2022 – including an ultra-rare Ponsot
First, something of a rarity – a Ponsot 1994. Laurent Ponsot recounted to me this week that “In 1994 most of my neighbours picked a bit too early and had grapes full of rot. Me, (he said with a smile) I picked a bit too late and also… Read More
from this week’s inquisition…
My many thanks for the vigneron(ne)s that put up with my questions this week – many covetable wines for sure! Purely alphabetically: Au Pied de Mont Chauve Jacques Carillon Jean Chartron Comtesse de Chérisey Thomas-Collardot Le Grappin Antoine Jobard… Read More
2018 A lockdown value summary
I couldn’t go to the producers, but some of their efforts could come to me – of course, with the vagaries of the Swiss Post Office and customs, so some stuff never made it it to Bern. The aim of these tastings was to look at the values, as I… Read More