Well, it was too quiet today – 2021 part 2
Savigny Vergelesses today, looking towards Corton I got quite a mailbag when I made my first post of (semi) unsubstantiated rumours and the peddling of idle chit-chat, so thought I’d update you on some of those, and add a few more, to finish this… Read More
Well, it was too quiet today!
Let me know if you’re shocked at such unsubstantiated drivel in these pages or whether you’d like to see much more 🙂 I’ve been storing up the rumours and other ‘non-announced’ changes for some time, so why not let’s run through a few of them – I can only get… Read More
drinking to excess…
Excess, in this case, not necessarily volume-related… I’d planned to post on this modest line-up of bottles early last week – but the frost-related events of the week made me reconsider my timing – despite bottles such as these being the marketing livelihood of the region – or… Read More
La Romanée – how about a ’62? – it’s just a question of which century…
Images from Baghera… Remember this? Well, the catalogue is now available – you can bid online, or just electronically thumb the pdf… We can quibble about pricing – and who’s to say the catalogue doesn’t underestimate the hammer prices?… Read More
nuits for the weekend
And for a change, three great, robust, corks too! 2007 Mugnier, Nuits St.Georges 1er Clos de la Marechale There’s a little ageing to the colour of this, but not to the extent of many from the vintage. The nose has bit of ‘pluminess’ to the fruit, but… Read More
2018 Red Burgundy Report
“You need to taste without exception what you want to buy in 2018 – it’s an oenologist’s vintage – lots of tricks were used.” Louis-Michel Liger-Belair So it’s a vintage of the sun – lots of sun – the second hottest on record after 2003, so of… Read More
counting the cost – this week’s hail update
I’d promised an update after 48 hours and here you go – but first a few images from this morning’s jogging route around Beaune: Beaune Cent-Vignes Beaune-Bressandes More Cent-Vignes… Read More
adieu arak…
I’ve had the fine fortune to have visited the estate of Louis-Michel Liger-Belair and family since 2004, that year to taste 2003s and then every vintage since. An ever-present in this time, has been the family dog – Arak – a large-boned and very noble, almost aloof Weimaraner – pic… Read More
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