2015 Irancy
Time to take a look at a range of Irancy wines from the 2015 vintage – all were tasted blind in Chablis on the 23rd April 2017. The wines… Of-course it was the usual process – wines tasted blind, leaving with a sheaf of data-sheets to be consulted when… Read More
2015 Chiroubles
Tasted in Villefranche, 06 April 2017. The appellation of Chiroubles has something of a problem at the moment – but it’s not a wine quality problem – as can be seen from the tasting that follows – the average quality of these wines was certainly higher than that… Read More
2015 Régnié
Tasted in Villefranche, 06 April 2017. The village of Régnié-Durette has less than 1,000 inhabitants and gives its name to the Beaujolais cru of Régnié. An area of 750 hectares are delimited as AOP Régnié, of which around 600 hectares are planted and further of which 428 hectares… Read More
week 05 2016 – the first of february’s volnay visits
Le portraits…. So for commentors, Woody and Joost, you will be able to see the reports of these visits in my February 2016 issue of Burgundy Report, here. Published about the end of March. The first weeks visits to vignerons who live in… Read More
Saint Bris – 2013 – Irancy
I cleverly thought this ready for publishing and so didn’t have the key to the identities to reveal which bottles are which at the publishing time. I need 48 more hours to return to my Beaune office – oops! Sorry! EDIT: Now Fixed! I have quickly established Irancy as… Read More
27x Irancy 2012, blind…
Thanks are due to the BIVB in Chablis for helping to organise this tasting. Taking stock about one-third of the way through these wines; many seemed aromatically a little ‘sub-ripe’ for most pinot purists, that said, those same purists would have nothing to fear from the intense and… Read More
The big round-up
Here’s a compendium of wines, mainly tasted with producers at the end of March 2012 – almost 200 wines – the bulk are culled from tastings put on for the Grands Jours de Bourgogne which happens every two years. I’ll start with a selection of wines from Beaune, followed by… Read More
Beaune: Village Profile
The town of Beaune itself is built on and from the stone of the surrounding hillsides, many ancient quarries are still visible as you walk through the Beaune hillsides. The name Beaune possibly comes from Belen, the Celtic god or Belena, the small river that traverses the city. Read More
Profile: Domaine Dujac (Morey St.Denis)
The core of what is today Domaine Dujac, was the Domaine Marcel Graillet in Morey St.Denis. Marcel Graillet was a vigneron in Morey, working either behind a horse or on a tractor in the 1960s. It was not a large domaine, covering about 4.5 hectares, but it included… Read More