2022 Burgundy – A Summary
29 March 2022: Pruning for poles – En Echalas – the new vogue… Just one summary? For central Burgundy – ie before I visit Chablis and Beaujolais – yes, just one. In the years that you’ve paid me to write these annual reports, this is the first time that I’ve… Read More
Another ICYMI – high priced wine-ethics
This is a tough one, isn’t it? Can you ethically drink Romanée-Conti? I always review wines in the same way – is this a great Bourgogne? Or is this a great grand cru? I never tell you that a particular wine is worth a special search… Read More
2023 Burgundy harvest – 08 September
Volnay 1er Fremiet Volnay Fremiet – Faiveley Pommard 1er Poutures Cooling! In-your-face Vosne marketing… Clos des Lambrays – with a… Read More
Thibault Liger-Belair – 2021
Tasted in Nuits St.Georges with Thibault Liger-Belair, 05 April 2023. Domaine Thibault Liger-Belair 32 rue Thurot 21700 Nuits St.Georges Tel: +33 3 80 61 51 16 www.thibaultligerbelair.com More reports with Domaine Thibault Liger-Belair Thibault on 2022: “22 was lovely but we were surprised by the amount of grapes – I… Read More
l’Arlot – 2021
Tasted in Premeaux with Géraldine Godot, 16 November 2022. Domaine de L’Arlot Premeaux 21700 Nuits-Saint-Georges Tel: +33 3 80 61 01 92 www.arlot.com More reports with Domaine de l’Arlot Géraldine on 2022: “Who wouldn’t be happy with 22? The quantity was good and so was the quality. We achieved practically… Read More
2021 Red Burgundy Part 2 – Côtes de Beaune & Nuits
2021 Red Burgundy Part 1: The Côte de Beaune – November 2022 2021 Red Burgundy Part 2: The Côte de Nuits – December 2022 (Here) 2021 Red Burgundy Part 3: Beaujolais – February 2023 29 March 2021 – 28°C – One week before the frost and snow arrived… What about… Read More
just a few recent wines…
As Dan and Mike, in the comments, were interested. Here are some notes from a previous post plus some other bottles too: 2019 Berthaut-Gerbet, Bourgogne Hautes Côted de Nuits Medium-plus colour. Perfumed with dark-red fruit. Nicely sweeping lines from this middle-weight wine, a wine that was drunk in… Read More
the 2022 vintage – today…
This ‘fancy yellow’ is often the first iris (it was the second of about 14 varieties this year) to flower in my (Swiss) garden – you can compare the precocity of the flowering dates here too: 09 May 2018 23 May 2019 05 May… Read More
clos de vougeot/citeaux auction – and the results were…
Following on from this report, and tasting here. And so, on Saturday evening, came the end of the almost week-long auction to benefit the Abbey of Citeaux. The proceeds of the sale totalling totalling €797,750 / $870,000… The highest prices went to wines… Read More