Tastevinage: The 2023 Majors !!
For a few years now the Tastevinage have made a ‘selection’ of the best wines selected from the wines presented for tasting in the year – obviously here from the 2023 tasting season – and this selection, again chosen blind – is the result of 785… Read More
Cité des Climats et Vins – Beaune
I previously visited the new outpost of the trilogy of Cités des Climats et Vins in Chablis – where I praised the human scale and architecture of the operation. I was unsure if I would be so positive towards this large erection on Beaune’s outskirts, but… Read More
Clotilde Davenne – 2021
Tasted in Préhy with Clotilde & Arnaud Davenne, 19 January 2023. Domaine Clotilde Davenne 3, rue de Chantemerle 89800 Préhy Tel: +33 3 86 41 46 05 www.clotildedavenne.fr More reports with Domaine Clotilde Davenne Clotilde on 2022: “2022 was a ‘correct’ yield we never attack the high volumes – but… Read More
Beaujolais’ Pierres Dorées – a tasting
Given the precedent of a group of quality-minded producers in Beaujolais’ Lantignié – whereby they are differentiating themselves from Beaujolais-Villages by using the Lantignié name on their labels and making wine worth a few extra Euros per bottle versus the average – the same is now afoot in the Pierres… Read More
Trenel – 2020
Tasted in Charnay-lès-Mâcon with Benoit Bertrandy, 21 February 2022. Maison Trenel Chemin de Buèry 71850 Charnay-lès-Mâcon +33 3 85 34 48 20 www.trenel.fr More reports with Maison Trenel Yet another new face chez Maison Trenel. Barbara Cueille has left to join her family domaine in Champagne – so no surprise… Read More
Clotilde Davenne – 2020
Tasted in Préhy with Clotilde & Arnaud Davenne, 06 January 2022. Domaine Clotilde Davenne 3, rue de Chantemerle 89800 Préhy Tel: +33 3 86 41 46 05 www.clotildedavenne.fr More reports with Domaine Clotilde Davenne Clotilde on 2020:… Read More
Simonnet-Febvre – 2020
Tasted with Paul Espitalié in Chablis, 12 January 2022. Simonnet-Febvre 9 Avenue Oberwesel 89800 Chablis Tel: +33 3 86 18 95 69 www.simonnet-febvre.com More reports with Maison Simonnet-Febvre Paul on 2021: 21 was certainly complicated but we managed an average… Read More
Marronniers & Maupertuis – 2020
Tasted in Préhy with Laurent & Marie-Noëlle Ternynck, 06 January 2022. Domaine de Mauperthuis 3, Grande rue de Chablis 89800 Préhy Tel: +33 3 86 41 42 70 www.domaine-marronniers.com More reports for Domaines Marronniers & Maupertuis Marie-Noëlle… Read More
2019 Irancy – 40 wines tasted blind
A range of wines tasted 29 April 2021. Moved to the May report as it includes the visits to a trio of very impressive new names for this appellation who provided great wines for this tasting. Summarising 2019 was a middling volume vintage (see below) in an area… Read More