The very big round-up…
Here’s a compendium of wines, mainly 2011s and virtually all from bottle, mainly tasted with producers. I would have tasted many, many more in March/April but (sadly) had to cancel my visits. You will also see more and more 2012s as we move through into July-November. I’m afraid I still… Read More
la romanée 2007…
It was the boss’s birthday, so with fellow vendangeurs, we drank to toast his health… 2007 Comte Liger-Belair, La Romanée Opened a couple of hours before and left open in a cool place. The wine starts with a big,… Read More
a nine bottle evening
With beouf bourguignone, a really interesting set of wines – the Thomas Frères wines coming from an undisturbed Zürich cellar. Wines were served blind… 1966 Thomas Frères, Tastevinage Cote de Nuits Villages Pronounced, wild aromatics – you have the impression that this could be a young ‘natural’ wine. The… Read More
Nuits Saint Georges: Village Profile
Despite having no Grand Crus to call its own, Nuits appended the name of its most important vineyard, Les St.Georges, on the 10th May 1892 to become Nuits-Saint-Georges – before that it was described as Nuits-sous-Beaune. When the railway came in 1849 the station here was… Read More
The big round-up
Here’s a compendium of wines, mainly tasted with producers at the end of March 2012 – almost 200 wines – the bulk are culled from tastings put on for the Grands Jours de Bourgogne which happens every two years. I’ll start with a selection of wines from Beaune, followed by… Read More
Just so many wines – part 2
Not quite the blast that was part 1 – just over 90 wines – probably fatigue was starting to set in! Here’s a compendium of wines tasted with producers between the 1st April 2011 and the end of June 2011. They are mainly 2009s – more and more… Read More
The others tasted…
No slurping or spitting! This is a compendium of wines that were drunk with food, friends and family, between April 2011 and August 2011. Regional Wines (3) Villages Wines (14) Premier Cru Wines (24) Grand Cru Wines (6) REGIONAL WINES 2009 David Clark, Bourgogne Passetoutgrains… Read More
Updates 2009s…
With the exception of Comte Liger-Belair – and that was anyway in May – here is a compendium of wines from Côte de Beaune producers. They are mainly 2009s and 2008s, the choice simply reflecting whether what was in cask was tastable or not – I’ve tasted many more from… Read More
The Pearl of the Côte, Allen D. Meadows
2010, BurghoundBooks.com A note in the postbox; there’s a package to collect! And what a package; a Fedex ‘Large Box’, expertly packed with heavy duty bubble-wrap – there’s no sparing the CO2 here – unless it’s preserved in the bubbles! But the large, heavy book slides out in immaculate… Read More