Alvina Pernot – 2021
Tasted in Puligny with Philippe Abadie, 20 January 2023. Domaine Alvina Pernot 4d rue de Bois 21190 Puligny-Montrachet More reports with Domaine Alvina Pernot Philippe on 2022: “We were so happy. 21 was good in terms of wine, though the grapes could have been better; grapes harvested in September are… Read More
Alvina Pernot – 2020
Tasted in Puligny with Alvina’s husband, Philippe Abadie, 13 October 2021. Domaine Alvina Pernot 4d rue de Bois 21190 Puligny-Montrachet More reports with Domaine Alvina Pernot If you take the D974 south – I still prefer to call it the RN74! – to Puligny,… Read More
Alvina Pernot – 2019
Tasted in Puligny with Alvina Pernot and husband Philippe Abadie, 07 October 2020. Alvina Pernot 26 rue de Poiseul 21190 Puligny-Montrachet Of course, you will recognise Alvina from her family’s domaine, but in 2018 she decided, with her husband Philippe to make a label of… Read More
2020 White Burgundy – Part 2
2020 Whites Part 1: Mâconnais – October 2021 2020 Whites Part 2: Côte d’Or – November 2021 (this report) 2020 Whites Part 3: Chablis – Jan 2022 (so coming soon) Meursault, 25 May 2020 – the flowering already done in the chardonnay…… Read More
a yorkshire lunch
Tuesday 14th April @ Sous le Nez in Leeds A few old pals got together; 3 from Yorkshire plus a proud Lancastrian and an innocent bystander from Switzerland! We didn’t have a theme, and I was handicapped by only having the wines that I thought might be ‘useful’… Read More
Just so many wines…
Here’s a compendium of wines tasted with producers between the 1st December 2010 and the end of March 2011. They are mainly 2009s and 2008s – I tasted lots of 2010s in this period, but far too early to make notes – there’s not much value telling you that Romanée-Conti… Read More
bootcamps and travel
I start 8 days of travel today – Holland: mainly Dutch Siberia (Friesland) with a weekend in Amsterdam – if I’m in your environs (during the week) drop me a line at the usual place. I expect only a smattering of posts in that time. I don’t really… Read More
Round-up of wines tasted
This is basically a round-up of all the wines drunk over the last 6 months. Typically no slurping and spitting; these wines are drunk at home with food and friends but I’ll also place all wines tasted from bottle here. REGIONAL WINES 1999 Nicolas Potel, Côte de Nuits… Read More
red burgundy vintage 2001 with howard ripley
Another good showing from this UK based Specialist Merchant. First a quick word on the whites; I love the aromatics, but they don’t show the consistent interest and balance of the 1999 & 2000’s. Consistent is the operative word, there are some fabulous wines, but ‘some’ not lots, I certainly… Read More