2021 White Burgundy – Part 2
2021 Whites Part 1: Mâconnais, the modern classic 2021 Whites Part 2: Côte d’Or – the modern classic (this report) 2021 Whites Part 3: Chablis – Jan 2022 (so coming soon) Bâtard-Montrachet (Chassagne side) 09 September 2021 With the first two reports… Read More
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. Like this:Like Loading... 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