Baron Thénard – 2014
Tasted in Givry with Jean-Baptiste Bordeaux Montrieux, 02 November 2015. Domaine Thénard 7 Rue de L’Hôtel de ville 71640 Givry Tel: +33 3 85 44 31 36 A branch of the Thénard family owned land in Givry since at least 1760, but the estate was actually… Read More
2012 Savigny-Dominode & Beaune-Grèves – blind…
Tasted in Beaune with several winemakers, 4th December 2014. Okay, I was a bad boy – but no change there! The title of my tasting was 2012 Beaune Grèves, but as you will note, my first 5 wines were not Grèves, but I did show the bottles after… Read More
Clos de Vougeot 2011 – blind tasted…
Tasted in London at the F+R offices, 14 October, 2014. My thanks to Joss Fowler for extending the invitation – I guess he knew it was my birthday! If you email him, I’m sure he will be happy to sell you all of these! Summarising… Read More
Corton-Charlemagne 2012 – blind…
Before delving into the detail, it’s worth saying ‘what a great set of wines’ this was. I used my normal nomenclature (Rebuy: no – maybe – yes) converted to 0-2 points, plus my favourite wine getting 3 points, but there was nothing here that I wouldn’t enjoy sharing… Read More
Burgundy Reports
A Burgundy Report EXTRA! subscription costs 85 Swiss Francs per year. Subscribe to Burgundy Report See what you’re missing, below… The 2019 Reports: March 2019All Styles:New names from Chablis2017 Beaujolais Blanc & Irancy, screw-caps & more…… Read More
Clos de la Chapelle – 2012s
Tasted with Dimitri Bazas and Mark O’Connell at Maison Champy in Beaune, 29 Jan, 2014. I asked Mark about the writer of the book that I summarised in my Diary: Apparently Philippe Remoissenet is a Parisian real-estate developer, and a vague relative of more Burgundian Remoissenets. He was actually… Read More
Profile: Domaine Claudie Jobard (Demigny)
Readers will have met Claudie before – either in these pages, or in my book – of-course she is Bernard Repolt’s ‘better half’ as winemaker at Remoissenet in Beaune. Quite a lot of you will also know that her mother, Laurence, was winemaker/enologist for almost 30 years at Joseph Drouhin… Read More
The very big round-up…
Here’s a compendium of wines, mainly 2011s and virtually all from bottle, mainly tasted with producers. I would have tasted many, many more in March/April but (sadly) had to cancel my visits. You will also see more and more 2012s as we move through into July-November. I’m afraid I still… Read More
The others tasted…
No slurping or spitting! This is a compendium of wines that were mainly drunk with food, friends and family (a bunch from Pascal Marechand excepted), between May 2012 and September 2012… Regional Wines (6) Villages Wines (12) Premier Cru Wines (37) Grand Cru Wines (13) REGIONAL… Read More