bootcamps and travel
I start 8 days of travel today – Holland: mainly Dutch Siberia (Friesland) with a weekend in Amsterdam – if I’m in your environs (during the week) drop me a line at the usual place. I expect only a smattering of posts in that time. I don’t really… Read More
Round-up of wines tasted (1er + GC)
Regional Wines (11) Villages Wines (28) Premier Cru Wines (76) Grand Cru Wines (25) 1er CRU WINES 1997 d’Angerville, Volnay 1er Clos des Ducs (Magnum) A soft, sweet and much redder fruited nose than the last bottles. The palate is medium intensity, coming… Read More
Round-up of wines tasted
No slurping or spitting! This is a compendium of wines that, in the main, were really drunk with food, friends and family between March and August 2007. There main exception in these pages are that the majority of the 1997’s were tasted at a large gathering in Beaune in… Read More
Vosne-Romanée: Village Profile
— a little village history — the vineyards — a selection of wines — Vosne-Romanée holds an exalted status in the minds of burgundy ‘worshipers’ – in this context I use the term, worshiper assuredly – any day of the week, rain or shine, you will… Read More
Round-up of wines tasted
No slurping and spitting; these wines were really drunk and predominantly at home with food and friends between November 2004 and March 2005. I started 2005 with a few 1999 Vosne 1ers – usually very good, occasionally fabulous. Plenty of 2002’s that are very nice, but aren’t quite so… Read More
my 2002 wines of the year
Domaine Marquis d’Angerville Volnay 1er Clos des Ducs 1982 This wine comes from a 2.40 hectare ‘monopole’ vineyard (i.e. only one owner) in the Côte de Beaune. As vineyards in burgundy go this is quite large for a single owner, the vineyard itself is directly against the Pommard… Read More
Eventually… Some Christmas day wines…
1989 André Cathiard, Vosne-Romanée 1er Les Suchots My last bottle of these labels – the one before ‘Sylvain Cathaird.’ The cork slides out far too easily, soaked to its length in wine – but in one piece! Medium colour, not with any obvious browning – clean and bright. Read More