pommard #15
A very ‘competent’ wine that needs a little more ‘soul’: 1996 Comte Armand, Pommard 1er Clos des Epenots Medium-plus colour. A wild and impressive nose at the start; oak, a little blood, interesting width, but slowly the oak becomes a little more dominant and the joy… 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
Round-up of wines tasted
No slurping and spitting; these wines were drunk at home with food and friends between July and November 2003. Corkwatch: 4 from 84 = 4.8% REGIONAL WINES 2000 Joseph Faiveley, Bourgogne Rouge Medium cherry red. The nose is of earthy cooked red cherries against a faintly smokey… Read More
Profile: Domaine de la Vougeraie (Premeaux)
Update: The Vougeraie 2004s – March 2006 Update: The Vougeraie 2005s, 2004s and a vertical of Clos de la Prieuré – March 2007 Update: The Vougeraie 2008s & 2009s – March 2011 Domaine de la Vougeraie is a creation of the wealthiest wine related company… Read More
clos de vougeot/citeaux auction – and the results were…
Following on from this report, and tasting here. And so, on Saturday evening, came the end of the almost week-long auction to benefit the Abbey of Citeaux. The proceeds of the sale totalling totalling €797,750 / $870,000… The highest prices went to wines… Read More
2019 White Burgundy – Part 2
Part 1: 2019 Mâconnais – Sept 2020 Part 2: 2019 Côte d’Or – Oct 2020 Part 3: 2019 Chablis – Jan 2021 02 April 2019 – before the frost… What about the 2019 whites? Delicious, sensuous, tactile wines… 2019 is a year… Read More
The 1998 Burgundy Vintage – 20 years on…
I have been so looking forward to tasting these 1998s. I cut my teeth of the wines of 1993-1995 and the 1996s were the first en-primeur wines that I bought. I tasted some 1996 and 1997s in Burgundy but only started to regularly taste from cask from the 2000 vintage… Read More
The 1997s – 20 years on…
It seems that it has been 14 years (!) since I took a look at this vintage. Back then, 20 years sounded about right for good vineyards from an ‘early maturing’ vintage. So let’s do it: For the last 10 years, or more, the… Read More
Heitz-Lochardet – Chassagne-Montrachet
Tasted in Chassagne with Armand Heitz, 21 July 2015. Domaine Heitz-Lochardet 24 Rue Charles Paquelin 21190 Chassagne-Montrachet Tel: +33 3 80 21 33 19 Today’s new face in Chassagne is Domaine Heitz-Lochardet, their home is an old but impressive house and buildings close to the wine-shop… Read More