Dominique Lafon – 2014
Tasted with Dominique Lafon at the Château de Bligny, 07 December 2015. Domaine Dominique Lafon Château de Bligny 14 Grande rue 21200 Bligny-lès-Beaune The Château de Bligny was the home of a project called ‘Evening Land Vineyards’ – wines that were exported to the US. With the… Read More
1992 lafon monthélie 1er duresses (encore)
Last tasted in April last year, and I’d say that this is a bit nicer bottle. 1992 Comtes Lafon, Monthélie 1er Les Duresses Medium, perhaps medium-plus red colour. The nose begins rather deeply; a baked dark-fruit that slowly… Read More
1992 lafon monthélie 1er duresses
I’ve been lucky enough to both drink and taste a reasonable amount of Comte Lafon’s wines, but I’m ashamed to say that I’d none in my cellar before I bought this. There’s plenty of white Lafon for sale at auction – no surprise in these times of p.ox –… Read More
2022 Burgundy – A Summary
29 March 2022: Pruning for poles – En Echalas – the new vogue… Just one summary? For central Burgundy – ie before I visit Chablis and Beaujolais – yes, just one. In the years that you’ve paid me to write these annual reports, this is the first time that I’ve… Read More
weekend wines – week 12 2023…
Actually, I haven’t written anything about last weekend’s wines – I’ll get back to you on those! 2014 Verret, Chablis 1er Beauroy l’Ame du domaine Plenty of colour. The nose has a light caramel note but also a vibrating width of riper citrus – almost tending to… Read More
just a few recent wines…
As Dan and Mike, in the comments, were interested. Here are some notes from a previous post plus some other bottles too: 2019 Berthaut-Gerbet, Bourgogne Hautes Côted de Nuits Medium-plus colour. Perfumed with dark-red fruit. Nicely sweeping lines from this middle-weight wine, a wine that was drunk in… Read More
Tuesday September 6 – my Burgundy harvest day number 7
Mixed emotions on the Tuesday morning; our first bins of Corton-Charlemagne arrived about 08h00 and the grapes were resplendent – not too much to triage here! It was only about an hour later that we heard of the death, in the night, of Louis-Fabrice Latour – almost a youngster… 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
2020 White Burgundy – Part 2
2020 Whites Part 1: Mâconnais – October 2021 2020 Whites Part 2: Côte d’Or – November 2021 (this report) 2020 Whites Part 3: Chablis – Jan 2022 (so coming soon) Meursault, 25 May 2020 – the flowering already done in the chardonnay…… Read More