Château de La Terrière – 2021 & 2020
Tasted in St.Amour with Grégory Barbet, 23 February 2023. Château de la Terrière La Terrière 69220 Cercié Tel: +33 4 74 66 77 89 chateaudelaterriere.fr More reports for Domaine Château de La Terrière In every instance I’ve tasted a wine from here, I’ve been impressed – except when I’ve tasted… 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
Mainly Beaujolais – new names & many magnums
Bien Boire en Beaujolais 2019 afforded me to the opportunity of finding a few (relatively) new names – here are 10 of them. Where possible I mainly tasted their 2017s. The domaines were not all from Beaujolais – truth be told, there’s some very nice Mâconnais domaines too! Plus I… Read More
Saint Amour: Village Profile
Saint Amour Basics: AOC – Since February 1946 AOC Area – 320 hectares Allowed Yields – 58 Hl/ha Allowed Colours – Red only (White bottled as Beaujolais Blanc) Allowed Grapes – Gamay Noir with up to a maximum of 15% ‘others’ including: Aligoté,… Read More
Château de la Terrière – 2015
Tasted in the Chateau de la Terrière with Grégory Barbet and Frederic Maignet, 20 February 2017. Château de la Terrière La Terrière 69220 Cercié Tel: +33 4 74 66 77 89 Grégory on 2016: “Really hard. Spring was very wet and with hail too –… Read More
weekend wines – week 9 2020
I like to keep things varied – in terms of the label – plenty of great acidity in this selection… 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
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
Clos Sauvage – 2022
Tasted in the Haut du Bois de Leynes with David Devynck, 29 March 2023. Domaine Clos Sauvage Haut du Bois de Leynes 71570 Leynes Tel: +33 7 89 47 33 04 www.clossauvage.com David Devynck and his wife Sophie have been here since 2019. They had worked on farms and in… Read More