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
more robots…
I previously introduced the BAKUS here. Two years later, maybe you might start seeing them in the ‘wild.’ In this case, in the vineyards of Louis Moreau in Chablis: Share this:… 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
monday 23 Sept – harvest 2019 update
My home domaine finished their harvest on Thursday, and many others are also done, but that wasn’t the case in the Hautes Côtes, the Côte de Nuits or even Chablis and Beaujolais where they still had much work to do: On Friday the vast majority of the Côte de… Read More
52x 2017 Petit Chablis
Tasted blind, at the BIVB office in Chablis, 08 January 2019. I didn’t do this tasting for the 2016 vintage because most of Petit Chablis had been badly frosted. That said, so was a lot of 2017 too! I have anyway renewed my acquaintance with this AOP… Read More
Cave Prestige 2018 – Les Blancs…
Apparently this is the 47th 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. For this, the 2018 version, they began… Read More
Grands Maisons – Grands Crus – Edition 2018
Tasted in the Clos Frantin cuverie in Nuits St.Georges, 15 March 2018. This year heralded a new format for this ‘not to miss’ tasting. Previous years saw a blind tasting of ‘Maison’ wines in Clos de Vougeot – and no time for chatting or you wouldn’t have the time to… Read More
Petit Chablis 2012
Tasted in Chablis 17 April, 2014. More often than not, Petit Chablis is grown on Portlandian rock outside of the old Chablis boundaries, though that doesn’t necessarily mean it is far from much more important vines, the tops of many hills – including Grand Cru hills – are… 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