58 x 2005’s
No pretence about making life easy for you – these wines are listed in exactly the order tasted – but there are plenty of big names! They were not drunk at home, nor were many swallowed, but they were all tasted in a 2 hour period together with most of… Read More
ouch – potential p.ox from a benchmark wine
Thursday was just your average evening: me gatecrashing a dinner in Beaune with 3 former ‘harvest (07) mates’, plus two winemakers and someone ‘ITB’ (in the business) from Australia… Prompted by an earlier Henri Boillot bottle that was more than a little tired I had decided that I… Read More
Round-up of wines tasted (1er + GC)
Regional Wines (11) Villages Wines (28) Premier Cru Wines (76) Grand Cru Wines (25) 1er CRU WINES 1997 d’Angerville, Volnay 1er Clos des Ducs (Magnum) A soft, sweet and much redder fruited nose than the last bottles. The palate is medium intensity, coming… Read More
Round-up of wines tasted
No slurping or spitting! This is a compendium of wines that, in the main, were really drunk with food, friends and family between March and August 2007. There main exception in these pages are that the majority of the 1997’s were tasted at a large gathering in Beaune in… Read More
The Spring 2007 Round-Up
This is hardly a real page – more of an index really – but there would have been far too much content for a single page given the (annually) wider coverage of new wines: 2004 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 2005 Albert Bichot Portfolio – lookout for some Domaine… Read More
Round-up of wines tasted
No slurping or spitting! This is a compendium of wines that, in the main, were really drunk with food, friends and family. These wines were typically drunk at home, or at organised dinners between December 2006 and March 2007. Some wines drunk with their producers are included… Read More
Varia…
The last dotting of ‘i’s and crossing of ‘t’s is being done on the NoteFinder, hopefully it will get the launch fanfare in the next 3-4 days. This work actually shows up the gaps in other areas, so I’m finally (also!) knuckling-down to getting on with the appellation reference. Read More