Round-up of wines tasted
No slurping or spitting! This is a compendium of wines that were drunk with food, friends and family, between August 2008 and the end of November 2008. A mere 52 bottles are listed here, but don’t forget that another 113 from this Autumn Report lie here – it… Read More
offer of the day…
DOMAINE THIBAULT LIGER-BELAIR 2007 GEVREY-CHAMBERTIN Les Croix des Champs 75cl 45.00 Swiss Francs NUITS-SAINT-GEORGES La Charmotte 75cl 47.50 VOSNE-ROMANEE Aux Réas 75cl 66.00 NUITS-SAINT-GEORGES Les Saint-Georges 75cl 85.00 CLOS DE VOUGEOT 75cl 109.00 RICHEBOURG 75cl 259.00 Observations? Well the villages wines are averagely priced except… Read More
Tasting 112×2006 in bottle
112 wines from the 2006 vintage tasted over 8 days, plus one interloping 2005 – 80% were poured by their makers. Clearly for the vast majority of these I did not drink the whole bottle, otherwise the powers that be would have already rejected the need for a pointless… Read More
Profile: Domaine Jean Paul & Stéphane Magnien (Morey St.Denis)
Just behind the church in the centre of Morey St.Denis, you will find the small courtyard and domaine of Jean-Paul, and latterly Stéphane Magnien. After working for seven years with his father, and completing his BAC and BTS in Beaune, Stéphane is now, and for about one year, heading the… Read More
2004 à la coccinelle
I think I was possibly the first to publicly raise and discuss the ‘vintage character’ of 2004 reds – anecdotally whites are also affected – Christophe Roumier is one who says this – but I’ve not experienced any obvious examples, so from here-on, red it is…… Read More
arlaud vendanges – the reprise!
'Mark de Morey' was eventually found - not at the bottom of the destemmer, rather with a full inbox in his Blackberry - de rigeur for pickers this year you know! Trying to fix both that and his cherished camera slowed him down a little, but unbowed, here's the continuation of his story...
vendangeurs arrive – herve checks the register early morning morey dawn 27sept early vendange – bourgogne roncevie by rn74
Domaine Arlaud Diary
Monday 29th Sept
My notes, now, several days later, tell me we did Morey Les Blanchards premier cru this morning and afternoon we did Morey Les Milandes premier cru although has been suggested we did the latter yesterday – your writer now confused.com !! By checking the Morey map in Coates latest tome am sure doing ‘Blanchards’ morning was correct – supported by one or two photos taken, including a couple of my fellow vendangeurs (male) pisse dans les vignes ! Recall the grapes looked very healthy indeed - large pendulous, clean looking, bunches from Milandes. Read More
offer of the day – louis jadot 2006
DOMAINE LOUIS JADOT – millésime 2006 VINS BLANCS PERNAND VERGELESSES Clos Croix de Pierre 75cl 36.00 SFr CORTON CHARLEMAGNE 75cl 138.00 CHEVALIER-MONTRACHET Les Demoiselles 75cl 345.00 VINS ROUGES GEVREY-CHAMBERTIN Les Cazetiers 75cl 69.50 GEVREY-CHAMBERTIN Le Clos St-Jacques 75cl 119.00 NUITS-SAINT-GEORGES Aux Boudots… Read More
Roundup of Wines Tasted
‘Only’ 83 wines for you in this list – I was too busy to drink! From memory only one corked bottle… Regional Wines 2005 Bertagna, Bourgogne Hautes Côtes de Nuits Les Dames Huguettes Medium, medium-plus cherry red. Frankly I don’t like the nose – it’s quite… Read More
Profile: Domaine Ponsot (Morey St.Denis)
“You can please all the people, or you can make great wine” Eric Asimov Whilst that quote was in a quite different context, it could easily be applied to Domaine Ponsot; Laurent Ponsot likes to stretch the boundaries of what can be bottled to the extent that, despite the… Read More