early hail in savigny, yesterday…
It’s very early in the season, and I’m not aware of very much damage – so far! – but there was hail in Savigny yesterday, reported by both Maison Harbour and Nicolas Rossignol. See the video below (via Instagram) that Nico posted from Les Lavières:… Read More
last week’s wines…
A nice mix of bottles, drunk the week before I went to Beaujolais: 2013 Clothilde Davenne, Chablis Bougros What a lovely, lovely wine. None of the overt botrytis apricot and fast development of a lot of Chablis in 2013 – yet – this was open and frankly… Read More
two mid-week tipples…
Two worthy wines, one of which offered much more pizzazz… 2011 Nicolas Rossignol, Volnay 1er Roncerets There’s just a trace of oak on both the nose and flavours to this wine – nothing overdone, it’s just a faint accent. The wine itself is much more subdued than all… Read More
Volnay: Village Profile
Volnay is about wines of beautiful perfume, but this relatively small appellation is also about people – Rossignols, Bouleys, Mures and Boillots – plus their various hybrids: “All the Rossignols are cousins, even Rossignol-Trapet in Gevrey is a nephew, and the grandfather of Henri Boillot was the brother of my… Read More
02-2016 Random Ruminations
Volnay Check out the (right, relatively recent) sign in the parking of Volnay, and you will see a list of about 40 domaines that actually reside in Volnay – and I thought to myself – ‘why not do them all?’ This should be a relatively ‘easy’ project as… Read More
week 06’s weekend wines…
Saturday, with more Gueguen 2014 Chablis as the chaser 😉 2011 Nicolas Rossignol, Volnay 1er Les Santenots Santenots can be a big, meaty, concentrated and tannic. This is a pussycat – round, open, layered and very, very tasty… Read More
death in beaune and the first weekend bottles (of 2016)…
We weren’t planning on being in Beaune over the new year holiday, rather we had the 31st planned with friends in Bern – but due to problems their end, this was postponed – so why not Beaune(?) Well the obvious answer (having now done it!) is that Beaune is completely dead!… Read More
windless…
The first spray in Beaune… I was shaking my head watching a tractor deliver it’s treatment in the vines yesterday – or not deliver as it turned out. A reasonably strong wind was sweeping across the vines, and with it, their treatment was swept away. Not just a… Read More
a weekend selection…
A fine selection from the cellar this weekend. One of my favourite 2011s from Nicolas Rossignol – no-wonder his twitter ‘handle’ is ronceret! The Grands-Echézeaux is the 2005 – the purchased fruit of domaine René Engel – the last grapes that he tended – a very primary baby but with… Read More