bootcamps and travel
I start 8 days of travel today – Holland: mainly Dutch Siberia (Friesland) with a weekend in Amsterdam – if I’m in your environs (during the week) drop me a line at the usual place. I expect only a smattering of posts in that time. I don’t really… Read More
Profile: Domaine Denis et Vincent Berthaut (Fixin)
I’ll make a bold statement here: Denis Berthaut provides some of the finest and most ‘elegant’ of wines from the Fixin / Gevrey area; as l’Arlot are a style understudy to Dujac so Berthaut can be similarly be compared with the loftier elegance of J-F Mugnier – there 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
1999 Jadot Louis Chambertin Clos-de-Bèze
After 4 months without a corked bottle, bugger – corked – now I only have 4 of these left. The colour is medium, medium-plus ruby red with just a little less cherry red at the rim than the first wine. The nose starts with a waft of dark, spicy oak… Read in the Note Finder
the 1999’s unveiled…
Summaries: There were no wines here that I regret buying, and none that I would regret having more of! Wine 1 – Like a beautiful lady watched across a room that I didn’t manage to speak with. This was (as many guessed) the Mugnier Amoureuses. The comment about not… Read More
top wines from 1999 – #3
The (alphabetical) list to choose from: 1999 Premier Crus Robert Arnoux, Vosne-Romanée 1er Les Suchots …find… Veronique Drouhin, Vosne-Romanée 1er Les Petits Monts …find… J-F Mugnier, Chambolle-Musigny 1er Les Amoureuses …find… 1999 Grand Crus Domaine des Chézeaux (Ponsot), Clos St.Denis cuvée… Read More
top wines from 1999 – #2
The (alphabetical) list to choose from: 1999 Premier Crus Robert Arnoux, Vosne-Romanée 1er Les Suchots …find… Veronique Drouhin, Vosne-Romanée 1er Les Petits Monts …find… J-F Mugnier, Chambolle-Musigny 1er Les Amoureuses …find… 1999 Grand Crus Domaine des Chézeaux (Ponsot), Clos St.Denis cuvée… Read More
onto the 1999’s – a game for the next days
This really started with the ‘uncovering’ of an unopened 6-pack of Potel’s 99 Volnay VV – I opened one up and it was excellent, so what else lay in the cellar untested? I decided to call it a day once 5 bottles of the same vintage were rounded up… Read More