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
frost watch and electric cables…
I shared a photo with you from Monday afternoon as the team of Eric Germain at Vincent Girardin were placing candles in their vines – these buds not just in the ‘cotton‘ stage but also starting to open. That said, these are the buds of the more precocious… Read More
a few festive wines – so far…
Just from memory: 2019 Dönnhoff Oberhäuser Leistenberg Riesling Kabinett The name longer than the note! Low alcohol, sweet but so moreish – delicious wine… 2018 Laurent Martray, Brouilly Corentin This is why I love this producer – so involving, beautiful fruit and suddenly the… 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
Alexandre Parigot – 2019
Tasted in Meloisey with Alexandre Parigot, 22 July 2021. Domaine Alexandre Parigot 8 Route de Pommard 21190 Meloisey Tel: +33 3 80 26 01 70 Alexandre Parigot is the third generation – after Georges and Regis – of his family who have been growing grapes for at… Read More
Alex Gambal – 2018
Tasted in Beaune with Matthieu Thevenard & Laure Guilloteau, 30 June 2020. Maison Alex Gambal 14 Boulevard Jules Ferry 21200 Beaune Tel: +33 3 80 22 75 81 www.alexgambal.com (offline) More reports for Alex Gambal. It was… Read More
working with coronovirus in the vines…
A good video, with subtitles, by Marie-Antoinette Szczypiorski, interviewing Eric Germain of Domaine Vincent Girardin. Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)… Read More
luncheon wine…
A little luncheon wine: 2011 Pascal Agrapart, Avizoise I don’t review Champagne, but I like Champagne! That said, most of the new names/cuvées that sommeliers like to show or recommend seem to me to be oxidative in style or showing plenty of autolysis – those wines are… Read More
Lucien Muzard – 2017
Tasted with Claude and Hervé Muzard in Santenay, 13 November 2018. Domaine Lucien Muzard et Fils 11, bis rue de la Cour Verreuil 21590, Santenay Tel. +33 (0)3 80 20 61 85 Hervé on 2018: 2018 – like all the vignerons I expect – makes us… Read More