Profile: Domaine Château de Gevrey-Chambertin (Gevrey)
August 2012: The owner of the Château de Gevrey-Chambertin, Elisabeth Masson-Mitéran, died in November 2011 and her heirs subsequently decidide to sell. It is now ‘official‘ that the Château has been sold to Chinese investors. Ordinarily this might cause a few mutterings, but the temperature has been raised… Read More
Profile: Domaine Jacques-Frédéric Mugnier (Chambolle)
The Mugniers originally hailed from Dijon. A successful 1800’s ‘liquor’ business was their platform to purchase in 1863 the Château de Chambolle-Musigny; an impressive bourgeois residence in the village of Chambolle – the house also happened to come with a modest 4 hectares of vineyards – modest in size… Read More
Profile: Domaine des Hospices de Beaune & Hôtel-Dieu (Beaune)
“I wrote the foregoing chapter in two hours directly on the typewriter, and then went out to lunch with John Dos Passos, who I consider a very forceful writer. …we lunched on rollmops, sole meuniere, civet de lievre à la cocotte, marmelade de pommes, and washed it all down, as… Read More
Romanesca – 2022
Tasted in Fleurie with Olivier Chastel, 22 February 2024. Domaine Romanesca 1172 Route de la Chapelle des Bois 69820 Fleurie Tel: +33 6 33 84 72 68 Domaine Instagram domaineromanesca.com More reports with Domaine Romanesca Olivier on 2023: “I think will be good – 30-35 hl/ha and maybe better balanced,… Read More
2018 Beaujolais: ‘This time the weather was with us!‘
2018 was a year with an early harvest and not much, but regular, rain after the 15th June – so the vines didn’t suffer from drought. It was ‘mainly’ too dry for the maladies in the summer, though. 2018 is the first vintage for a number of… Read More
and the winners are…
I previously mentioned the first-round tasting for Burgundy’s young winemaking talents 2019, well for the weekend of the Vend du Vin, the final blind taste-off was done and the winners chosen. And the results? On Friday 15 November evening, at the Palais des Congrès… Read More
2017 Beaujolais Blanc
And the winners were… All blind-tasted in Villefranche-sur-Saône, 22 March 2019. The Summary: 61 wines tasted blind, though tasted in the order 1) Beaujolais Blanc and then 2) Beaujolais Villages Blanc – it was by pure chance that my picks were equally split between each… Read More
2017 Beaujolais
2017 was a year of contrasts – some very friendly growing conditions and some assuredly malevolent weather – a sometimes chaotic growing season, sometimes friendly. It could hardly be any other way when you consider the large geography of the region. Many think of 2017 as a hot and… Read More
30th edition of burgundy’s young talents…
I finally got to see the result of this years competition – decided at the end of last week. Here are the domaines, winemaker who got the trophy and the wines that they presented. Enjoy: Catégorie Mâconnais – Charles Edouard DROUIN of Domaine Thierry DROUIN Mâcon Vergisson «… Read More