catching up with the empty bottles…
Before I left for Piedmonte, I’d accumulated a lovely set of wines – I would/should say an exceptional group of wines. Where I can remember something, or indeed took a few crafty notes, a few words follow about them:… Read More
Profile: Bart
Tasted in Marsannay with Pierre Bart, 25 April 2019. Domaine Bart 23 Rue Moreau 21160 Marsannay-la-Côte Tel: +33 3 80 51 49 76 Domaine Andre Bart began life in modest fashion, and for many years had little more than 6 hectares of vines. In the early 1980s,… Read More
a special treat – weekend wines, week 46 2018
Certainly not every year, and hardly every second or third year, but every so often you have to do it properly eh? Or how can you have benchmarks? A couple of empty soldiers from a tasting chez Bouchard Père which I will write-up in my Bouchard visit report –… Read More
The 1998 Burgundy Vintage – 20 years on…
I have been so looking forward to tasting these 1998s. I cut my teeth of the wines of 1993-1995 and the 1996s were the first en-primeur wines that I bought. I tasted some 1996 and 1997s in Burgundy but only started to regularly taste from cask from the 2000 vintage… Read More
this week’s icymi…
What’s new in Beaujolais – well the Louis Latour thing is old news – here at least! I was actually the first journalist to taste the first vintage of that wine after bottling! Géraldine Godot at Domaine de l’Arlot – always worth your (my!)… Read More
JF Mugnier – 2016
Tasted in Chambolle-Musigny with Frédéric Mugnier, 14 November, 2017. Domaine Jacques Frederic Mugnier Rue de Vergy 21220 Chambolle-Musigny Tel: +33 3 80 62 85 39 www.mugnier.fr Frédéric on 2017: “2017 was, I’d say, ideal. There was the possibility of frost but we… Read More
The 1997s – 20 years on…
It seems that it has been 14 years (!) since I took a look at this vintage. Back then, 20 years sounded about right for good vineyards from an ‘early maturing’ vintage. So let’s do it: For the last 10 years, or more, the… Read More
2017 harvest – 13 september
Chambolle today… The morning was pretty Autumnal and cold, so it was a surprise when it became a little muggy and 24°C in the afternoon – rain was forecast but never really materialised. I started my afternoon tour on the northern border of Chambolle-Musigny with Morey –… Read More
a lesson in pruning musigny…
Eric Bourgogne of de Vogüé graciously gave me a lesson in pruning in Musigny today – it’s impressive the attention to detail that Eric has; quickly removing spare buds and generally tidying the ‘pieds’ and spotting the camouflaged caterpillars. I think it was probably a good idea that he never… Read More