camille giroud 05 bourgogne pinot noir
2005 Camille Giroud, Bourgogne Pinot Noir Medium plus colour. The nose is wide, ripe and softly red fruited. In the mouth you have to get past a little dissolved carbon dioxide – it’s the first time that David Croix hasn’t racked during elevage – frankly you need… Read More
camille giroud 03 bourgogne
2003 Camille Giroud, Bourgogne Now coming into the last bottles of this case – only 4 remain. Medium, medium-plus cherry red. The nose is quite 2003 in style yet shows beautifully delineated red and blue fruits and more unusually for 2003 there are violets too over a… Read More
Profile: Maison Camille Giroud (Beaune)
UPDATE: November 2004 Maison Camille Giroud was founded in 1865 by the man of that name. Succeded by his son Lucien a reputation was built on wines that aged for years and years. The sons of Lucien; Bernard and Francois perpetuated this tradition, mainly buying in wines after their… Read More
camille-giroud’s 2010 savigny les peuillets….
Without doubt I’m a little biased, but what wonderful value this wine is, not just from the basic perspective of Savigny pricing, but for the impressive quality within too… 2010 Camille Giroud, Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Les Peuillets Medium, medium-plus… Read More
camille-giroud 2010 chassagne tête du clos
After yesterday’s Les Vergers I decided I was on a run… 2010 Camille-Giroud, Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Tête du Clos (Blanc) The nose is more pungent, Chassagne-style herbs, it seems brooding and quite powerful – normally a description of a red!… Read More
camille-giroud 2010 chassagne les vergers
2010 Camille-Giroud, Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Les Vergers (Blanc) Like a sword, a well-balanced sword, sharp, thrusting and wielded with power. Okay enough of that, but this wine was really winner, with its minerality ande a certain tension. Simply lovely!… Read More
camille-giroud 2005 gevrey en champs
2005 Camille-Giroud, Gevrey-Chambertin En Champs Medium, medium-plus rather young looking colour. Gorgeous detail of sweet, dark red berries with some rounder depth. Transparent, detailed, beautifully balanced, fine intensity with just a hint of distracting vanilla make-up as you… Read More
camille-giroud 2006 gevrey en champ
2006 Camille-Giroud, Gevrey-Chambertin En Champ Only medium colour. Round, with sweet, high-toned rather red fruit. Across your tongue this is a lithe wine of energy and slightly (only slightly…) forward acidity that holds onto the acid-cherry flavour in… Read More
camille-giroud 2001 vosne malconsorts
Hmm. A bottle of this drunk during the 2012 harvest was just a beautiful bottle of wine – I had to have some. Yet here is a bottle that really didn’t light many fires to start with – the pistachios that I took some solace in, also didn’t taste… Read More