Julie Balagny – adieu…
I heard the sad news over the weekend but waited for confirmation before writing anything. Julie Balagny, vigneronne of Moulin-à-Vent has recently died. Her home was nestled in the hamlet of Les Thorins. A house whose door would usually be wide open – even if… Read More
Domaine Anita – 2021
Tasted in Chénas with Anita Kuhnel, 28 March 2023…. Become a subscriber to access the articles in Burgundy Report ‘Extra!’ Log In Register Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens… Read More
Julie Balagny – 2021
Tasted with Julie Balagny in Les Thorins, 23 February 2023. Domaine Julie Balagny 249 Route des Thorins, 71570 Romanèche-Thorins Tel: +33 6 19 55 67 48 More reports with Julie Balagny Julie on 2022: “2022 it was really warm – April too, apart from the frost – then it was… Read More
2021 Beaujolais: You can have it all – there’s great, good and there’s ugly too…
2021 Red Burgundy Part 1: 35 Côte de Beaune domaines – November 2022 2021 Red Burgundy Part 2: 41 Côte de Nuits domaines – December 2022 2021 Red Burgundy Part 3: 85 Beaujolais domaines – February 2023 Above the Col du Truges, February 2021 2021 was a throwback to many… Read More
a few festive wines – so far…
Just from memory: 2019 Dönnhoff Oberhäuser Leistenberg Riesling Kabinett The name longer than the note! Low alcohol, sweet but so moreish – delicious wine… 2018 Laurent Martray, Brouilly Corentin This is why I love this producer – so involving, beautiful fruit and suddenly the… 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’ boys and girls come to Beaune….
In the ‘square’ of Romain Escoffier’s Table du Square in Beaune (right), and with an occasional interloper, the brave young producers of Beaujolais set up stall in the heart of the Côte d’Or during the week of Burgundy’s Grands Jours de Bourgogne. This tasting was not in the official programme… Read More
weekend wines – week 12 2020
The variety of Burgundy in 3 bottles: 2013 Comte Liger-Belair, Nuits St.Georges 1er Aux Cras Like Louis-Michel’s 2013 villages Vosnes, there’s a little reduction here – but here it’s on a much lower level than those wines. The wine starts round – both the aromas and the… 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