The thing about a great Aligoté is that (blind) it walks a tightrope between a great red and a great white burgundy – put it in a black tasting glass and see how many people guess wrongly the colour – this 80% old-vine aligoté (the rest is chardonnay, though… Read More

2005 Ponsot, Bourgogne Cuvée du Pinson Deeply coloured with a twist of purple. Wide, with a high toned and slightly estery nose. The palate is well concentrated and certainly well textured. High-toned, ripe fruit in the mouth with good acidity and good length. There is… Read More

1992 des Chézeaux, Griotte-Chambertin There has been some obvious seepage from the cork, but the bottle/label remains clean. A medium-plus garnet colour. The nose starts deep and brooding, perhaps a little sweet – but little else – the last drops in the glass, however, are of… Read More

1994 des Chézeaux, Griotte-Chambertin Good 94’s are hard to come by but I’ve never been disappointed by this cuvée – apart from one corked bottle. This Ponsot elevaged wine shows medium ruby-red colour and a lovely forward nose of sweet red cherry and faint sweat oak… Read More

2004 des Chézeaux (Ponsot), Griotte-Chambertin The nose starts high-toned with a backdrop of vintage 2004 cedar. Slowly the cedar recedes giving space for a much more mineral aspect than is usual for this vineyard and certainly less alluring. The palate is silky with fresh acidity and… Read More

I didn’t have much luck wiith the first two villages wines I tasted here and here but here is a very nice wine… 2001 Ponsot, Chambolle-Musigny 1er Les CharmesMedium cherry-red. The nose is transparent, almost crystaline red fruit of some sweetness that takes… Read More

Tomorrow will kick-off the first of about 8 days of concentrated tasting; I start with a dinner with 12 super wines – all from magnum – then Tuesday will see a large Pommard tasting, Thursday and Friday I have visits at a number of domaines. Saturday sees yet-more 2004’s. I… Read More