weekend stuff, week 43 2018
Hot-footing back from Beaune on Friday, I thought to myself – Chambertin time! I’d pulled this bottle out for a friend’s tasting of Chambertins and Bèze, but after some date changes, I found myself unable to attend – a big shame – but the bottle was still looking at… Read More
DIAM and the eventual triumph of empiricism…
A discussion of why I believe DIAM to be my closure of choice for white burgundy. For a number of years I’ve recommended here in Burgundy Report that you either drink your white burgundy young – let’s say within 3-5 years of release – or that you buy… Read More
sober, sombre reflection…
To take stock, it’s always better to take a step back – emotions can be raw in the first minutes / hours after such an attack. My experience of the hail on Saturday was in the Place Carnot in Beaune. It started at 17h10 with heavy rain – then for… Read More
de la Tour – 2022
Tasted in Lignorelles with Vincent Fabrici, 18 January 2024. Domaine de la Tour 3 Route de Montfort 89800 Lignorelles Tel: +33 3 86 47 55 68 www.ledomainedelatour.eu More reports with Domaine de La Tour Vincent on 2023: “I can be happy – we filled our tanks – it was a… Read More
de la Tour – 2021
Tasted in Lignorelles with Vincent Fabrici, 27 January 2023. Domaine de la Tour 3 Route de Montfort 89800 Lignorelles Tel: +33 3 86 47 55 68 www.ledomainedelatour.eu More reports with Domaine de La Tour Vincent on 2022: “I will bottle some next Monday – I’ve never bottled so early. This… Read More
2021 Red Burgundy Part 1 – The Côte de Beaune
2021 Red Burgundy Part 1: (Here) The Côte de Beaune – November 2022 2021 Red Burgundy Part 2: The Côte de Nuits – December 2022 2021 Red Burgundy Part 3: Beaujolais – February 2022 Clos des Cortons – Faiveley – 6 weeks after the frost What about the 2021 reds… Read More
Tuesday September 6 – my Burgundy harvest day number 7
Mixed emotions on the Tuesday morning; our first bins of Corton-Charlemagne arrived about 08h00 and the grapes were resplendent – not too much to triage here! It was only about an hour later that we heard of the death, in the night, of Louis-Fabrice Latour – almost a youngster… 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
de la Tour – 2020
Tasted in Lignorelles with Vincent Fabrici, 04 January 2022. Domaine de la Tour 3 Route de Montfort 89800 Lignorelles Tel: +33 3 86 47 55 68 www.ledomainedelatour.eu There’s no ‘tower’ here at the top of the village of Lignorelles but this was a… Read More