Often forgotten, the charitable wine-auction of the Hospices de Nuits is a compact and bijou version of the magnificent sale that takes place each year on the third Sunday of November in Beaune. Taking place on the last Sunday before Easter, and heralded by the Nuits St.Gearges half-marathon,… Read More

Much has changed at this domaine since I made my profile – time to renew and make new acquaintances. Summer time in 2011 was a time with many interesting stories about Domaine de l’Arlot. The winemaker Olivier Leriche had decided to leave for a new project outside Burgundy and… Read More

Domaine Philippe and Vincent Lecheneaut is run by the two brother of those names. They began in 1985, at quite an early age, because of their father Fernand’s illness. Fernand had worked at the Nuits-based négoce ‘Maison Morin’ until it closed in 1980, but he had already about 3… Read More

Alexandrine Roy has become a queen of personal marketing with regular updates and lovely photos through her Facebook presence. Of-course that would be self-defeating if the wines were only average – the wines are far from that, however. I visited Alexandrine, a fan of high-powered motorcycles, as the… Read More

It had been a while since I caught up with Sophie and Fabrice Laronze. Long-time contacts when they worked together with Alex Gambal, they had moved-on to set up their own domaine in Auxey-Duresses. As the considerable amount of building-work was coming to an end, I decided it was time… Read More

In one page, a range of brilliant wines from the masters of their art in Beaune. As brilliant as the wines of Bellene and Jadot were, I’m even more thrilled to see the disappearance of the toasty oak from the BP&F reds – they are not better than the other… Read More

I’d been planning/hoping to visit for ages, but it seemed the home team was always too busy. Once an old contact from the days of Maison Nicolas Potel, Marco Caschera, took on a commercial role at the domaine, I pounced. I really enjoyed my visit, and the wines, but I… Read More

It was my favourite Californian winemaker (currently based in Nuits…) that introduced me to this producer; I saw he had a few bottles in his cellar and commented that I hadn’t heard of them – quick as a flash Ray thrust a bottle in my hands and told me… Read More

Of-course the most important question you will have about this domaine is likely not about their vineyards practices, inclusion of stems or even their oak regime, but rather – how to pronounce their name? – well that was the most important question for me anyway! For the record; ‘Dee-Joy-er’… Read More