Domaine Michel Gros 2023 Vendange Day 13
Post descending vehicles pre work start HCDN Fontaine St Martin Friday SEPT 22nd Into Day 13 and on we go with no sign of a finish, blimey ! The morning had dawned bright & sunny with blue skies greeting us as, again, we returned to the Hautes-Cotes de Nuits… Read More
Domaine Michel Gros 2023 Vendange Days 8 & 9 – Sept 17/18th
Sunday – 17th September As a non-working day, coming after the extended evening’s Paulee, and being kept awake by excessive, unwarranted noise into the ‘small hours’, I allowed myself the ‘luxury’ of a decadent lie in until rousing myself around 8.00 a.m. My room mate, Chef Jean-Michel, had already… Read More
Domaine Michel Gros 2023 Vendange Day 7 – Sept 16th
Saturday… This was yet another varied and interesting day in more ways than one ! In football (soccer) parlance this might be suitably described as a game (or day) of two halves (parts) ! Let’s get into it. I was up earlier than usual, not sure how I… Read More
Domaine Michel Gros 2023 Vendange Day 6 – Sept 15th
Domaine Vendange Team1 Friday Appreciate these are (to be) the words for this Day 6 but I’ve realised I’ve forgotten an aspect of the late evening of yesterday (Day 5) hence, rather than provide such words to Bill, and ask him to edit/add to the Day… Read More
Domaine Michel Gros 2023 Vendange Day 4 – Sept 13th
Wednesday – typed 02/10/2023 This was a very interesting day I thought – in retrospect; but let’s not get ahead of ourselves. I wasn’t in the best of moods initially, having been kept awake past 2.00 a.m. by the noise made by the blasted Belgians. The morning dawned… Read More
Domaine Michel Gros 2023 Vendange Day 2 – Sept 11th
(Typed 24/9/23) Up at 6.09 for breakfast to be ready for a 7.15 departure for Vosne 1er cru Clos Des Reas – part deux. As circa 2 hectares clearly this monopole isn’t a site one can see off quickly, albeit as someone used to Arlaud’s 5ha of Bourgogne Roncevie requiring… Read More
Domaine Michel Gros 2023 Vendange Day 1 – Sept 10th
The Italians ‘Acho’ 5 (2) The Italians ‘Acho’ 5 (2) Juliette’s ace hound3 Warning:- Some Doggy Porn (clean pictures of dogs !) will accompany this report 😊 Slept pretty well given I’d been travelling for… Read More
The return of the Mark – Vosne 2023
DOMAINE MICHEL GROS VENDANGE SEPT 2023 – JOURNEY TO ARRIVAL Bonjour tout la monde (as one says, en France, in a plural greeting to a number of folk e.g arriving for breakfast) 😊 ! I’ve really, really, missed 2 years away from my spiritual second ‘home’ on the Cote… Read More
2021 Red Burgundy Part 2 – Côtes de Beaune & Nuits
2021 Red Burgundy Part 1: The Côte de Beaune – November 2022 2021 Red Burgundy Part 2: The Côte de Nuits – December 2022 (Here) 2021 Red Burgundy Part 3: Beaujolais – February 2023 29 March 2021 – 28°C – One week before the frost and snow arrived… What about… Read More