some weekend wines – week 10 2019
2013 Comte Liger-Belair, Vosne-Romanée My first from this mixed case. Ooh what a great… Read More
weekend wines – week 31 2018
A lunch with, as you can see, like-minded friends… 2011 Comtes Lafon, Meursault Clos de la Barre It was very hard to place this wine when first poured – it had a certain sweetness – aromatically and in the flavour – but it kept getting better and better… Read More
Latricières-Chambertin – A Vineyard Profile
Ici commence Latricières-Chambertin! To the left, unploughed Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Aux Combottes and above the Combottes is Clos de la Roche. To the right, the ploughed Latricières-Chambertin of Camus, above it, bordered by trees is the unploughed Latricières of Arnoux-Lachaux. Grand Cru Surface (ha)1 2015 Prodn hl2 2016… Read More
And 2015? – nearly 50 wines now bottled
Nice to see how the bottled wines now look – plenty of truly great reds, though much harder to find great whites – seemingly more success by domaine than by particular wines in the whites! The whites: 2015 De Villaine, Bouzeron A modest nose, quite tight. Full, saline, slowly… Read More
2010 nicolas rossignol, l’héritière expression
You have to to search for the appellation here, but in small letters there’s Appellation Bourgogne Controlée. 2010 Nicolas Rossignol, l’Héritière Expression The nose starts with a little spice and plenty of reduction – together you would be forgiven for thinking that it’s oaky – though there’s some… Read More
big weekend, week 9 2017
All the wines were tasted blind and then the label shown before the next wine. The last white and the reds with dinner – a nice salad, blanquette de veaux, pears in burgundy wine, cheese… 2014 Céline et Frédéric Gueguen, Côteaux Bourguignone Sacy A super saline, faintly… Read More
2015 Red Burgundy
The red harvest in 2015 was a little lower volume than the 5-year average of the vintages 2011-2015 – just 1% lower – but with so many low-yielding vintages included in those 5 years, this actually remains a very modest volume vintage: Many producers were surprised by the low… Read More
my favourite comment of last week:
I was worried about putting air-conditioning into a 250 year-old cellar, because then I have the power of god – as I decide when it’s winter or not. Jean-Marie Fourrier Share this:Click… Read More
a few weekend bottles – week 40
Why not a run of vintages? 2010 to 2007… The 2010 Rebourgeon-Mure, Pommard 1er Clos des Charmois was a very tasty wine, with all the delicacy and elegance that 2010 offers, yet it was a little subdued – at least vs others from the vintage at this producer. Tasty… Read More