Vocoret – 2015
Tasted in Chablis with Patrice Vorcoret, 10 January 2017. Domaine Vocoret et Fils 40 Route d’Auxerre 89800 Chablis Tel: +33 3 86 42 12 53 www.domaine-vocoret.com Patrice on 2016: “It was only half, a harvest volume. I see the end of the vintage in… Read More
Vocoret – 2014
Tasted in Chablis with Patrice Vorcoret, 11 January 2016. Domaine Vocoret et Fils 40 Route d’Auxerre 89800 Chablis Tel: +33 3 86 42 12 53 www.domaine-vocoret.com There have been Vocorets noted in Chablis since at least 1740. One Edouard Vocoret began buying vineyards and his… Read More
Chablis 2020 – trouble at’ mill – weekend 29 2022…
At the risk of boring you, the hot weekend weather demands a cool bottle – or three – of Chablis. Unfortunately, this was a very unsatisfactory bunch. I feel a note to subscribers coming on – of the mea-culpa type – these 2020 pyrazines are becoming more and… Read More
mid-weekers, week 18 2021…
Last weekend there were no wines for me – but not because I was on the wagon – rather because I received my first covid-jab on Friday evening – Pfizer – so I let that do its thing before opening something a couple of days later… 2019 Yvon &… Read More
weekend 14 2021, drinks…
2018 Vocoret, Chablis 1er Montée de Tonnerre Despite the 2018 vintage, here’s a wine that could only come from Chablis – fresh and inviting aromas. Plenty of mouth-filling presence, lovely citrus energy too. A year on since last tasted, this wine is now in a very good… Read More
66x 2019 Petit Chablis
Tasted blind, at the BIVB office in Chablis, 25 January 2021. As always, I find these blind tastings a great source of new names, the aim being to find producers of great wines that I haven’t previously visited – Chablis has been quite a dynamic place in the… Read More
a bottle or two…
Just to show that I haven’t been ignoring my responsibilities these last couple of weeks – here’s the majority of bottles pulled from my own cellar in that time. I hold almost no notes in my head, but the basic impressions remain: The Armand Volnay was 2017, actually a… Read More
some weekend wines – week 15 2019
2017 Alice & Olivier De Moor, Le Vendangeur Masque, Le Caravan A mélange of different cepages from the south to north: clairette (Rhone), chardonnay… Read More
a few weekend wines – week 22 2018
2014 Françoise André, Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Les Vergelesses There’s a little curl of vanilla to what is otherwise a nice line of aromatic freshness with faint lime citrus. A sheen of fresh minerality over the palate – again accented with vanilla – but it’s a much fainter accent than… Read More