Les Pinot Blacks
Tasted in Courgis with Bruno Verret & Thomas Pico, 11 May 2021. The Irancy of Les Pinots Blacks was, by a long margin, my favourite wine from my tasting of 2019 Irancy – it’s also a rather interesting story: Les Pinot Blacks produced their first wine in 2017 and it… Read More
2019 Irancy – 40 wines tasted blind
A range of wines tasted 29 April 2021. Moved to the May report as it includes the visits to a trio of very impressive new names for this appellation who provided great wines for this tasting. Summarising 2019 was a middling volume vintage (see below) in an area… Read More
some weekend wine, week 25 2021
Note to self – must slow down with the Trapets – a case of 6 2016 Riesling Beblenheim purchased last week – already two bottles waiting for recycling! 2005 Lejeune, Bourgogne A case of these bought on release – I was stimulated to buy due to… Read More
3 fine bottles with less ‘fashionable’ labels
2017 Verret, Côtes d’Auxerre Chardonnay Les Gaudiers Chardonnay planted around Saint-Bris, cork sealed. This is a a good wine of both aromatic and flavour freshness that I would automatically assume comes from ‘northern’ Burgundy. It’s not astoundingly good wine per se, but tasty and an absolute… Read More
2017 Value Whites – the BIVB’s Cave Prestige 2019…
The winners… The 48th year that the BIVB have assembled their annual ‘cave prestige;’ the process consists of two tasting panels – a smaller one doing the first triage and larger group who provide the final thumbs up. Read More
2017 Irancy
Time to take a better look at how Irancy fared in 2017. Assembled were samples, tasted blind, in Chablis, 18 March 2017 – the organising of the sampling was kindly done by the BIVB Chablis. In 2017 we are back close to a full yield;… Read More
2015 Irancy
Time to take a look at a range of Irancy wines from the 2015 vintage – all were tasted blind in Chablis on the 23rd April 2017. The wines… Of-course it was the usual process – wines tasted blind, leaving with a sheaf of data-sheets to be consulted when… Read More
2015 Aligoté…
A quick 30 aligotés from 2015 for you. 2015 certainly offers good ripeness but rarely a flabby experience. The vast majority of these wines are available ex-domaine for less than €10 – some significantly so – of-course your (pricing) mileage may vary when buying locally. The wines… 2015… Read More
Bourgogne Rosés for summer 2016 – Pinot vs Gamay
There were two tastings in 3 days – 06+08 June 2016 – the first in Beaune and the second in Villefranche (Beaujolais). Who would come out on top – northern Burgundy or southern Burgndy? I looked at the current commercial vintage, which of-course largely means 2015 – though there are… Read More