52x 2017 Petit Chablis
Tasted blind, at the BIVB office in Chablis, 08 January 2019. I didn’t do this tasting for the 2016 vintage because most of Petit Chablis had been badly frosted. That said, so was a lot of 2017 too! I have anyway renewed my acquaintance with this AOP… Read More
Chanson Père et Fils – 2015
Tasted in Beaune with Jean-Pierre Confuron, 13 December 2016. Chanson Père et Fils 10 Rue du Collège/r Paul Chanson 21200 Beaune Tel: +33 3 80 25 97 97 www.vins-chanson.com Jean-Pierre on 2016: “In 2 to 3 words, what was left was very nice. Chablis… Read More
move over drc – for expensive bouchard père…
You didn’t think that I’d let this slip by eh? I may have previously mentioned that I bought wine at the last ex-cellars sale of Bouchard Père et Fils wines, in that particular case from Sothebys. At the weekend there was another sale, again featuring ex-cellars wines, but this time… Read More
bouchard père’s 2005 chablis bougros
The other day, I found my last bottle of this whilst ‘rummaging!’ Bouchard don’t have any holdings in Chablis, separate from those of William Fevre – so this is actually a Fevre wine, sold into Switzerland by somebody who obviously didn’t have the exclusivity on William Fevre! 🙂 2005… Read More
Bouchard Aîné et Fils – 2014
Tasted in Beaune with Vincent Bottreau, 03 December 2015. Maison Bouchard Aîné et Fils 4 Boulevard Maréchal Foch 21200 Beaune Tel: +33 3 80 24 06 66 www.bouchard-aine.fr The roots of this firm, like today’s Bouchard Père et Fils, are with Michel Bouchard whose… Read More
Burgundy’s merchant class – facing up to a changing market
Versus a generation ago – let us say 30 years – the market dynamics of traders who buy and sell wine have been far from static. The traditional Beaune-based merchants, or the ‘Maisons’ remain the focus of commentators but they have much more competition today, and at all levels… Read More
bouchard père 2007 vosne les suchots
2007 Bouchard Père et Fils, Vosne-Romanée 1er Les Suchots Well, what a gorgeous welcome this wine offered! Medium-plus coloured with a depth of faint spice and warm fruit – ‘drink me’ the label could have said! Round, sweet… Read More
bouchard père 2004 volnay cuvée carnot
How disappointed am I(?) I really don’t like the tag of being a Jonah, but here’s a bottling which I’d always thought had avoided the 2004 malaise, yet I must be fallible – it hasn’t. 2004 Bouchard Père et Fils, Volnay 1er Caillerets Ancienne Cuvée Carnot… Read More
bouchard père 2002 volnay cuvée carnot
2002 Bouchard Père et Fils, Volnay 1er Caillerets Ancienne Cuvée Carnot Medium-plus colour. The nose has some savoury notes and dried flowers too – it starts mainly in deeper registers – let’s see if it opens out. After… Read More