Champy – 2015
Tasted in Beaune with Dimitri Bazas, 01 December 2016. Maison Champy 3 Rue du Grenier À Sel 21200 Beaune Tel: +33 3 80 25 09 99 www.champy.com Of-course the big news in the last months was the acquisition of Maison… Read More
advini buy maison champy
Quite an important announcement I think – at a time with very few transactions: http://www.winespectator.com/webfeature/show/id/Burgundy-Wine-Producer-Maison-Champy-Sold Advini are also the owners of Domaine Laroche in Chablis – and frankly, despite their ‘factory size’ Laroche have been making outstanding wines for a few years now. Smaller Champy will have much… Read More
Minerality?
All tasted in Chablis, 20 March 2016, with Grégory Viennois, David Croix and Stéphane Derenoncourt. Or as my hosts described this tasting: Limestone and Minerality – the language of the soil. Honestly, I don’t think I learned very much about minerality in this presentation, hosted by Domaine Laroche in… Read More
week(end) 11 – a tasty wine selection (part 2)…
I suppose you could call this a warm-up for the ‘Grands Jours’, that week of tastings every two years, where it is literally impossible to attend every ‘session’ that you are either invited to, or have subscribed for! Having decided to miss the Nuits St.Georges half-marathon, the associated tasting… Read More
La Manufacture – 2014
Tasted in Maligny with Benjamin Laroche, 27 January 2016. La Manufacture 7, Rue des Maisons Rouges 89800 Maligny Tel: +33 6 45 42 30 78 www.lamanufacture-vins.fr Yesterday, my last visit was with Laurent Tribut, today I’m with Benjamin Laroche – they are two… Read More
La Meulière – 2014
Tasted with Vincent Laroche in Fleys, 27 January 2016. Domaine de la Meulière 18, route de Mont de Milieu 89800 Fleys Tel: +33 3 86 42 13 56 www.chablis-meuliere.com Nicolas and Vincent Laroche, no connection the Laroche family of Chablis, are two brothers… Read More
29x 2014 Petit Chablis, blind
Tasted at the BIVB in Chablis, 05 Jan 2016. Every year as a kick-off to my series of Chablis visits, I like to get something of baseline feeling for each new vintage, and what better way to start than with the base of the appellation, Petit Chablis. The BIVB are… Read More
Louis Max – 2014
Tasted in Nuits with Jean Francois Joliette, Éric de la Broise and David Duband, 01 December 2015. Maison Louis Max 6 Rue de Chaux 21700 Nuits-Saint-Georges Tel: +33 3 80 62 43 01 www.louismax.com The former CEO of Louis Max, Philippe Bardet moved to… Read More
A jumble of blind Chablis…
Tasted blind in Zürich, 01 June 2015, with the crew of Vinifera-Mundi. Our subject was ‘Chablis Grand Cru’. I’d brought an interesting older white for pre-tasting drinks, but somehow it was incorporated into the tasting as a ‘pirate’ – it wasn’t the only one. Overall, I came… Read More