2017 Marsannay – blind…
29 wines, tasted blind in Beaune, 23 May 2019. Lots to recommend in Marsannay in 2017 – a big thumbs up, it seems, for Domaine Bruno Clair here… 2017 Huguenot, Marsannay Champs Perdrix A very different style of nose after the Santenays – rounder more depth, almost… Read More
2017 Santenay – blind…
32 wines tasted blind in Beaune, 23 May 2019. Santenay was another area that I thought produced above average wines for the vintage in 2017 when tasting at domaines at the end of last year. From this tasting, the wines were certainly a cut above those tasted from… Read More
2017 Maranges – blind…
7 wines tasted blind in Beaune, 23 May 2019. Wines I tasted at domaines indicated Maranges to be a great source of modestly priced but excellent 2017 red burgundy. By comparison, this tasting was a relative disappointment. Many wines to like but few that were outstanding – quite… Read More
Côte Chalonnaise Blanc – 2016
Tasted at the BIVB Technical Centre in Beaune, 30 May 2018. All the wines were tasted blind, only matching the name to wine a couple of weeks later. An exercise that puts on show my full confidence in the 2016 vintage – the Côte Chalonnaise has fully delivered… Read More
DIAM and the eventual triumph of empiricism…
A discussion of why I believe DIAM to be my closure of choice for white burgundy. For a number of years I’ve recommended here in Burgundy Report that you either drink your white burgundy young – let’s say within 3-5 years of release – or that you buy… Read More
2015 Mercurey
Like both the 2015 Aligoté and the 2015 Givry tastings in this month’s report, all was done blind here. After tasting I took the dossier home that contained the technical info relating to each wine – only at this stage putting note and the name of the wine together. Read More
2015 Givry…
There are some very tasty wines here, and some that need more patience – I would have hoped for a slightly better result given the vintage, but, still, some very good wines here. First the villages, and generally they are certainly more attractive today than the 1er cru counterparts:… Read More
Rully – 2013 blancs
I guess, when so spread-out through many, many separate visit reports, it may not have been easy for subscribers to string together my general enthusiasm for 2013 Rully blancs – but for me it became a theme of quite some consistency when tasting these vintage whites – much more… Read More
GJB: Grand Crus Blind – 2011+2008
Grands Maisons, Grand Crus at the Clos de Vougeot, 20 March, 2014 All of these wines were tasted blind by me. Actually they are presented in the format “Wine 1. Chablis Les Clos” so you know the vineyard but not the producer – though, if there had been a Chablis… Read More