what’s new this week…
A few new infos from the BIVB, plus Andrew Jefford falling under the spell of the Clos de Tart. How much wine, and where? The 2010 vintage has produced a total of 1,393,030 hectoliters in (greater) Burgundy (equivalent to 186 million bottles). This is 12.4% below the… Read More
2008 comte liger-belair vosne la colombière
2008 Comte Liger-Belair, Vosne-Romanée La Colombière Medium colour. The nose for over two hours wears a background cloak of reduction yet the dark red fruit is easy to discern. Across the tongue it’s light and lithe with a… Read More
The 2007’s of Comte Liger-Belair
I visited Domaine Comte Liger-Belair a little later in the year than has been my ‘tradition’, but this gave me the opportunity see the stunning ‘extension’ to the cuverie that has seen a crane dominate the Vosne sky-line for over 1 year. When you or I talk of an extension,… Read More
Round-up of wines tasted
No slurping or spitting! This is a compendium of wines that, in the main, were really drunk with food, friends and family between March and August 2007. There main exception in these pages are that the majority of the 1997’s were tasted at a large gathering in Beaune in… Read More
Comte Liger-Belair & the case of the Lamadon Echézeaux
Main Profile: Domaine Comte Liger-Belair Here. The first ‘herald’ that you are arriving in Vosne-Romanée, at least for the last weeks, has been the long-distance sighting of a large yellow construction crane – sprouting from somewhere in the centre of the village. Like following a rainbow to… Read More
Round-up of all wines tasted…
No slurping or spitting! This is a compendium of wines that were drunk with food, friends and family, between July 2004 and the end of October 2004. Corkwatch: 5 from 83 = 6.0% Regional Wines (8) Villages Wines (24) Premier Cru Wines (27) Grand Cru… Read More
Roundup of all wines tasted…
No slurping and spitting. These wines were predominantly drunk at home with food and friends between February and July 2004. For the first time I’ve tried to bring a semblance of order to these notes, so in each section you will find the producers in alphabetical order!… Read More
2001 Château Génot-Boulanger Meursault Clos du Cromin
Pale golden colour. The nose has a well presented base of oak surmounted by a higher toned fruit top layer. Good fat and acidity – not the minerality of the Chablis – This is almost good and shows plenty of Meursault character, but at more than twice the price of… Read in the Note Finder