1997 Angerville Marquis d' Volnay Clos des Ducs
Medium ruby red, but looks much older than Jadot’s Grèves. Nose starts quietly, then goes deep and sweet. After time a little wood spice develops together with higher ‘flowery’ tones. Well structured with very good acidity bold but controlled tannin. The fruit has good intensity and shows medium-plus length. Certainly… Read in the Note Finder
1993 Leroy Pommard Les Vignots
Medium-plus cherry red – if I hadn’t seen the label from the colour I would have guessed this was a 1999. The nose was very individual, starting deep, perhaps a little oaky and definitely quite gamey and mushroomy. It took close to two hours (by which time there was very… Read in the Note Finder
China
So, a two week blast through a few bits of ‘Greater China’. I started in Taipei (Taiwan), which has a lovely easygoing feeling about it and lots of Japanese influence if the number of restaurants is anything to go by. Many goods are more expensive than Europe, though not outrageously… Read More
Round-up of wines tasted
No slurping and spitting; these wines were drunk at home with food and friends between July and November 2003. Corkwatch: 4 from 84 = 4.8% REGIONAL WINES 2000 Joseph Faiveley, Bourgogne Rouge Medium cherry red. The nose is of earthy cooked red cherries against a faintly smokey… Read More
The Griotte-Chambertin of Domaine Joseph Drouhin
Of course we don’t need to go through the history of Maison Joseph Drouhin as we did some of that here. Here we are talking (mainly) about the ‘domaine’ wine of Joseph drouhin, as they now own the vines. The core of this superb 14 wine vertical was… Read More
Griotte-Chambertin – a vineyard profile
If you follow the ‘Route des Grand Crus’ south from Gevrey-Chambertin in the direction of Morey you will pass on your right hand side the vineyards of Mazis-Chambertin, then Chambertin Clos de Bèze whose vines almost imperceptibly become Chambertin – the vineyards seem contiguous. It is at this join,… Read More
Profile: Domaine Fourrier (Gevrey-Chambertin)
Jean-Marie Fourrier walks from barrel to barrel telling me that he has almost nothing to do in his cellar as he lets the wines make themselves – all his work comes in the vineyards and prior to placing the wines in barrel. It sounds simple – deceptively simple – but… Read More
Allen Meadows – burgundy’s gone to the dogs !
During the long hot spell endured by the Burgundians this summer, I was fortunate enough to enjoy a lunch with the new ‘mover & shaker’ of wine critics – at least as far as the wines of Burgundy are concerned. Meadow’s burghound.com arrived on the scene just in… Read More
1997 White Burgundy
First of all an apology – a mere 20 whites tasted – I did have another 12 lined up, including some big name premier and grand crus from Domaine Leflaive, however, the mixed dozen were from the same merchant where a couple of the 1997 reds I tested in the… Read More