the charity clos de vougeot for the abbaye de cîteaux


In just over one week – Friday April 8th 2022 – Sotheby’s will commence an online charity auction of wines from Burgundy. The final recipient of these funds will be the Cistercian Abbey of Cîteaux, established in 1098. sothebys.com/vougeotpourciteaux The syndicate of producers of… Read More
offer of the day – lambrays 2020


It looks like this domaine have a lot of investments to recoup! You can see the prices from my usual Swiss merchant with 2019, 2018, 2017 & 2016 pricing in the brackets! — indicates not offered. Domaine Clos des Lambrays: Clos des Lambrays 2020 75cl 500.00 (445.00,… Read More
offer of the day – lambrays 2019
It looks like this domaine have a lot of investments to recoup! You can see the prices from my usual Swiss merchant with 2018, 2017 & 2016 pricing in the brackets! — indicates not offered. Domaine Clos des Lambrays: Clos des Lambrays 2019 75cl 445.00 (258.00, 238.00,… Read More
Clos de Tart – 2019 & 2018
Tasted in Morey St.Denis with Alessandro Noli, 08 December 2020. Clos de Tart 7 Route des Grands Crus 21220 Morey St.Denis Tel: +33 3 80 34 30 91 www.clos-de-tart.com More reports for Domaine Clos de Tart As with the Clos des… Read More
tart > devauges < lambrays
Well, that didn’t take long, did it(?) I alluded to it yesterday, and the same evening, LVMH (via Reuters) and La Revue du Vin de France, chose to make it official within 10 minutes of each-other: Jacques Devauges has left the Clos… Read More
Clos de Tart – 2016
Tasted in Morey with Jacques Devauges, 14 December, 2017. Clos de Tart 7 Route des Grands Crus 21220 Morey St.Denis Tel: +33 3 80 34 30 91 www.clos-de-tart.com I started with a cheeky question – ‘So, what’s new Jacques?‘ Jacques responded positively: “Well, we are… Read More
gossip, lambrays…
Only tittle-tattle, of-course, but I understand after buying the domaine, that LVMH had an internal candidate lined up for the job at Clos des Lambrays – contracts were done, only waiting to be signed. Reading between the lines, there might have been an obvious problem – their first choice wasn’t… Read More
inconsistent lambrays 2000…
The performance of the (half-dozen) 2000 Lambrays I bought en-primeur have been all over the map. The last was bretty and old, the one before that was drinking perfectly – and this? Well, if anything, it’s almost too young! 2000 Clos des Lambrays A good, deep, colour… Read More
lambrays or pommard? I’ll take bouley’s pommard ;-)
A nice lineup this weekend: 1979 André Nudant, Corton-Charlemagne Hmm – this is really not so dark a colour – I see more in some 2012s! Medium, medium-plus golden. The nose is wide, faintly sweet, citrussy pineapple, waxy, deep, lanolin and cream – very fine. Fresh, saline, modestly… Read More