Les Horées – 2019
Tasted in Pommard with Catharina Sadde, 24 September 2020 Les Horées 9 rue de Charmot 21630 Pommard Instagram.com – Les Horées 2019 was the first personal vintage for Catharina Sadde – I say ‘personal‘ because after arriving as a chef from her native Germany she has… Read More
a voracious appetite…
The hype of the sale-room? The pent-up demand due to the lack of a Hospices de Beaune auction? Yes, I know this sale was the day before the cancelled event in Beaune! But you decide… At the weekend, Zachys held their first-ever wine auction in… Read More
Bart – 2018
Tasted in Marsannay with Pierre Bart, 03 December 2019. Domaine Bart 23 Rue Moreau 21160 Marsannay-la-Côte Tel: +33 3 80 51 49 76 More reports for Domaine Bart Pierre on 2019: “In 2019 we made about 25% less, which is pretty classic… Read More
July’s Burgundy Report
For those who need their fix of Mugnier, de Vogüé, Faiveley, Rossignol-Trapet and Lamarche – plus some newly bottled Chablis – a mix of 2018 and 2017 wines, red and white, the July Burgundy Report has, for a few days, been online for subscribers… Enjoy! Like… Read More
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