2016 Roi Chambertin
Tasted in Gevrey-Chambertin, 16 November, 2017. This was the seventh presentation by the Syndicat of Gevrey-Chambertin for new vintage – first done with the 2010s – you will find notes from all of those previous tastings in the back-pages of Burgundy-Report (here). The format was the… Read More
Romanée-Conti – 2016
Tasted in Vosne-Romanée with Bertrand de Villaine, 14th December, 2017. Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 1 Place de l’Église 21700 Vosne-Romanée www.romanee-conti.com Aubert last year on on 2016: “People think the year was bad, only because of one day of frost, and yes we lost 90%… Read More
frost – 2+ – the côte de nuits…
As promised, I also toured around the vines of the Côte de Nuits on Friday and inspected vines ‘here and there’ along the way. As-ever, it seems that the Côte de Nuits has the lighter of the frost damage – though I’m definitely talking ‘on average’ because: Marsannay –… 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
Just so many wines…
Here’s a compendium of wines tasted with producers between the 1st December 2010 and the end of March 2011. They are mainly 2009s and 2008s – I tasted lots of 2010s in this period, but far too early to make notes – there’s not much value telling you that Romanée-Conti… Read More
Random ruminations…
March 2004 Nature intervened in the size of the spring report in the guise of two 3-4 periods of blocked noses and coughing – so I had to cancel some visits – only thing I could taste was my sore throat pastilles! Never mind, I’m sure the domaines… Read More