Thierry Glantenay – 2018
Tasted in Volnay, 13 November 2019, with Thierry Glantenay. Domaine Bernard & Thierry Glantenay 3 rue Vaut 21190 Volnay Tel: +33 3 80 21 62 20 Thierry on 2019: “2019 was a hot, heatwave, year with lots of dryness. The soil was damper so there was… Read More
2018 White Burgundy Report
Unlike the reds of 2018, I expect no controversies with the 2018 white burgundies. If the headlines for the 2017 growing season were dominated by frost – for 2018 it was the heat and dryness. There was an ever-present worry about maladies, but apart from some larger outbreaks of mildew… Read More
Profile: Christophe Jolivet
Tasted in Bligny with Christophe Jolivet, 27 September 2018. SAS Christophe Jolivet 14 Grande rue Le Chateau 21200 Bligny-lès-Beaune Tél: +33 6 64 02 81 30 From the blind tastings I did earlier in 2019, there were some great wines from names that I didn’t… Read More
Artisan Vignerons du Bourgogne du Sud – 2018 Mâconnais
It is always a pleasure to visit this group of producers for my usual ‘speed-dating’ tasting. I planned to visit in June, and then July, to taste 2017s – but in both cases, our mutual diaries came up short. Whilst that was a shame, it also opened up the opportunity… Read More
2019 Burgundy – the vintage weather
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it’s not just about the harvest, there are many factors that can influence a harvest, going right back to the growing season and harvest from the previous year: October 2018 The hot and dry summer of 2018 rolled on into… Read More
a bottle or two…
Just to show that I haven’t been ignoring my responsibilities these last couple of weeks – here’s the majority of bottles pulled from my own cellar in that time. I hold almost no notes in my head, but the basic impressions remain: The Armand Volnay was 2017, actually a… Read More
monday 23 Sept – harvest 2019 update
My home domaine finished their harvest on Thursday, and many others are also done, but that wasn’t the case in the Hautes Côtes, the Côte de Nuits or even Chablis and Beaujolais where they still had much work to do: On Friday the vast majority of the Côte de… Read More
wednesday 11 Sept – harvest 2019 update
More and more people are attacking their vines. Yesterday Lafon picked his Montrachet, and Lafarge did their usual opening routine of harvesting their Clos du Chateau des Ducs, hand-destemming the grapes through a large ‘sieve’ – as in previous years – then they did the same with their… Read More
Harvesting the 2019s
Vendanges alert! So we can say that we are underway… It’s the whites that are being harvested first this year, as is probably the case in 19 out of 20 years. First, there were some very early pickers in the middle of last week, then the Hospices were picking some… Read More