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
weekend 14 2021, drinks…
2018 Vocoret, Chablis 1er Montée de Tonnerre Despite the 2018 vintage, here’s a wine that could only come from Chablis – fresh and inviting aromas. Plenty of mouth-filling presence, lovely citrus energy too. A year on since last tasted, this wine is now in a very good… Read More
66x 2019 Petit Chablis
Tasted blind, at the BIVB office in Chablis, 25 January 2021. As always, I find these blind tastings a great source of new names, the aim being to find producers of great wines that I haven’t previously visited – Chablis has been quite a dynamic place in the… Read More
this week’s wines
All my magnums have been put to one side as we have been the quarantine-duo at home this Christmas – but still, an interesting range… Read More
wine?
Yes there have been some! I simply let the photos pile-up whilst going walking in the Swiss hills 🙂 My short reminisences: 1998 Gelin, Fixin 1er Clos Napoleon Here was a wine with… Read More
weekend wines – week 12 2020
The variety of Burgundy in 3 bottles: 2013 Comte Liger-Belair, Nuits St.Georges 1er Aux Cras Like Louis-Michel’s 2013 villages Vosnes, there’s a little reduction here – but here it’s on a much lower level than those wines. The wine starts round – both the aromas and the… Read More
a few old friends from 2005…
Michel Lafarge 2005 It’s always worth checking on a few old friends 😉 2005 des Croix, Bourgogne Pinot Noir It’s been a while since I checked in on this wine… Read More
56x 2018 Petit Chablis
Tasted blind, at the BIVB office in Chablis, 21 January 2020. As always, I find these blind tastings a great source of new names, of new producers whose wines I haven’t already explored. A number who made wines I rated highly in the 2017 vintage were profiled for… 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