comte liger-beair, now in clos de vougeot flavour!
Louis-Michel Liger-Belair today posted pictures of him triaging his new purchase – grand cru Clos de Vougeot. Okay, you might just say ‘it’s a grape purchase’ but it’s a little more committed than that; it is a 10 year contract for fruit from organically managed mid-slope vines. I really can’t… Read More
liger-belair 2004 vosne colombière
2004 Comte Liger-Belair, Vosne-Romanée La Colombière Medium, Medium-pale colour. Aromatically more impressive than you expect from the colour, deep with a faint edge of coffee – only turning redder and finer with a little tobacco and spice as you slowly drain the glass – no green… Read More
ICYMI
A little Clos des Lambrays info Tastevinage – the ‘LAUREATS’ of the 112th Tastevinage Blind tasting are in – here! Each year, on the 4th weekend of October, Auxey-Duresses and its neighbour Melin open their cellars to the public – with a free shuttle… Read More
Truchetet – 2021
Tasted in Premeaux-Prissey with Pauline, Julie & Morgan Truchetet, 23 May 2023. Domaine Truchetet 5 rue des Masers 21700 Premeaux-Prissey Tel: +33 3 80 23 67 92 www.domainetruchetet.fr More reports with Domaine Truchetet Morgan on 2022: 2022 was a good volume and I’m also happy with the quality. The malos… Read More
Boisset Jean-Claude – 2021
Tasted in Nuits St.Georges with Grégory Patriat, 18 April 2023. Jean-Claude Boisset 5 Quai Dumorey 21700 Nuits St.Georges Tel: +33 3 80 62 61 61 www.boisset.fr More reports with Maison Jean-Claude Boisset Grégory on 2021: “We are 80% down in the whites – it’s more like 35% for the reds… Read More
this week’s wines, including ‘Who is the new Domaine René Engel?’
Dinner with friends in Pommard and some lovely, eclectic, wines. The first bottle was a lovely 2011 Comtes Champagne – with some lovely menthol aromatic complexity. Then came the: 2012 Fontaine-Gagnard, Le Montrachet Deeper colour and the first nose was more monolithic – some sulfur-reduction hardening things… Read More
clos de vougeot/citeaux auction – and the results were…
Following on from this report, and tasting here. And so, on Saturday evening, came the end of the almost week-long auction to benefit the Abbey of Citeaux. The proceeds of the sale totalling totalling €797,750 / $870,000… The highest prices went to wines… Read More
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
Georges Mugneret-Gibourg – 2020
Tasted in Vosne-Romanée with Marie-Christine Mugneret, 15 November 2021. Domaine Georges Mugneret Gibourg 5, rue des Communes 21700 Vosne-Romanée Tel: +33 3 80 61 01 57 www.mugneret-gibourg.com More reports with Domaine Georges Mugneret Gibourg There was plenty of building… Read More