AOC Beaujolais
Category Regional/Generic appellation since 12/09/1937 There exists also AOC Beaujolais Superior, also since 12/09/1937, covering the same communes and potential production area. This AOC is for red wine only, with a slightly reduced allowed maximum yield. This wine is not allowed to be sold before January 15th of the… Read More
Château de La Chaize – 2018
Tasted in Odenas with Boris Gruy, 05 February 2020. Château de La Chaize 69460 Odenas Tel: +33 04 74 03 41 05 www.chateaudelachaize.com More reports for Château de La Chaize The rate of change at this estate is bewildering;… Read More
Profile: Château de Chamirey
Tasted in Mercurey with Amaury Devillard, 18 November 2018. Château de Chamirey Rue du Château, 71640 Mercurey Tel: +33 3 85 45 21 61 www.chamirey.com The Château de Chamirey is actually home to a number of domaines, each keeping their own label… Read More
mark’s vosne harvest – day 8
Domaine Michel Noellat et Fils, Vosne-Romanee - Vendange Day Eight, Thurs 24th Sept 2019
The last official working day of the 2019 vendange for the picking team and one with a difference, in location, for the majority of the day at least. I was, at last, to also find out today why we hadn’t, to my slight frustration cum disappointment, picked any of the domaine’s Vosne premier crus, nor Savigny or Pommard vines – but that came much later in the day so hang on a little !
The first absolute confirmation I think now I had that today was indeed to be our collective last day came from fellow snorer room mate, and other sub team leader/chauffeur/porteur, Jean-Claude1, who mentioned it as we roused ourselves. In the same conversation the other member of our room triumvirate, Jean-Claude2, mentioned he’d be ‘shooting off’ later ( I understood at the end of the working day) & was gone after lunch, without staying for the Paulee (first tangible mention I’d heard of that also) as he was meeting his daughter somewhere else in France that evening. Read More
2017 – Femmes et Vins
A gathering of a large number of the Femmes et Vins group of producers for their popular Exception’Elles tasting. This time in the Château de Montchat (right) in Lyon. Each of the producers was showing 4 wines, some even finishing with a contribution that was ‘a little’ older! 22 producers… Read More
Mainly Beaujolais – new names & many magnums
Bien Boire en Beaujolais 2019 afforded me to the opportunity of finding a few (relatively) new names – here are 10 of them. Where possible I mainly tasted their 2017s. The domaines were not all from Beaujolais – truth be told, there’s some very nice Mâconnais domaines too! Plus I… Read More
Jean Collet & Fils – 2017
Tasted in Chablis with Romain Collet, 16 January 2019. Domaine Jean Collet & Fils 15 avenue de la Liberté 89800 Chablis Tel: +33 3 86 42 11 93 www.domaine-collet.fr Romain on 2018: “2018 – My grandmother told me it’s probably once in the life… Read More
Grands Maisons – Grands Crus – Edition 2018
Tasted in the Clos Frantin cuverie in Nuits St.Georges, 15 March 2018. This year heralded a new format for this ‘not to miss’ tasting. Previous years saw a blind tasting of ‘Maison’ wines in Clos de Vougeot – and no time for chatting or you wouldn’t have the time to… Read More
2016 Beaujolais
2016 Beaujolais – delicious, in the main… This Beaujolais vintage has, as a broad generalisation, the same sucrosity – a sweetness of flavour – that was seen in 2015, except that the fruit profile of the 2016s has more freshness and less ‘cooked’ spice when compared to 2015. Read More