arlaud 1999 chambolle-musigny
A good contact tells me that this was only the second vintage for Cyprien Arlaud – well he didn’t do badly then did he(?) 1999 Arlaud, Chambolle-Musigny Rather deeply coloured, and it still looks… Read More
arlaud vendanges photos (4) le fin…
The last picture selection from Mark: The first four pictures all coming off Bonnes Mares looking towards Morey: vendange-077 vendange-078 vendange-079 vendange-080 vendange-109… Read More
arlaud vendanges photos (3) birthday of serge…
Serge is in the grey hoodie pening the large format bottle and with the cake. Lovely man. The rest of the party are Herve Arlaud, Romain Arlaud (dark curly hair & plaster cast on wrist) and my domaine resident fellow vendangeurs including Sophie, la belge. Mark de Morey… Read More
arlaud vendanges photos (2)
More photos from Arlaud. These are all from our first day, 27/9, picking Bourgogne Rouge grapes below the RN74. Herve Ar;aud is the grey haired guy in pale polo shirt on the right in No 12. vendange-031 vendange-009… Read More
arlaud vendanges photos (1)
Photos of cuverie and triage table. Very impressive new build modern set up – must have cost a bit. 3 or 4 yrs old. The fork lift takes the metal ‘tub’ from under the sorting table and is able to rotate it to tip the grapes into the tanks. Read More
arlaud vendanges – the reprise!
'Mark de Morey' was eventually found - not at the bottom of the destemmer, rather with a full inbox in his Blackberry - de rigeur for pickers this year you know! Trying to fix both that and his cherished camera slowed him down a little, but unbowed, here's the continuation of his story...
vendangeurs arrive – herve checks the register early morning morey dawn 27sept early vendange – bourgogne roncevie by rn74
Domaine Arlaud Diary
Monday 29th Sept
My notes, now, several days later, tell me we did Morey Les Blanchards premier cru this morning and afternoon we did Morey Les Milandes premier cru although has been suggested we did the latter yesterday – your writer now confused.com !! By checking the Morey map in Coates latest tome am sure doing ‘Blanchards’ morning was correct – supported by one or two photos taken, including a couple of my fellow vendangeurs (male) pisse dans les vignes ! Recall the grapes looked very healthy indeed - large pendulous, clean looking, bunches from Milandes. Read More
2006 chambolle-musigny from arlaud and lignier-michelot
Chambolle still has many nice wines in 2006, but at the villages level, there is clearly not the density to be found from the 2005 vintage. That said, I continue to buy a number of tasty, balanced wines – one of these two made it into the basket, the… Read More
arlaud 2005 bourgogne roncevie
2005 Domaine Arlaud, Bourgogne La Roncevie Medium-plus colour with more than a hint of purple at the rim. The nose is (for me) disappointingly more like Beaujolais than pinot – for 60 minutes it’s completely unchanging. If the aromatics don’t really impress, I have to say the… Read More
Domaine Michel Gros 2023 Vendange – the end !! Days 15-17…
Wall of Pinot Noir grapes for my cutting after leaf stripping Sunday-Tuesday, Sept 24th-26th Sunday As with our previous Sunday at the end of Week 1 this was a free, non-working, day. Despite that I was up at my usual hour and was again on my own in the… Read More