66x 2019 Petit Chablis
Tasted blind, at the BIVB office in Chablis, 25 January 2021. As always, I find these blind tastings a great source of new names, the aim being to find producers of great wines that I haven’t previously visited – Chablis has been quite a dynamic place in the… Read More
Vincent Girardin – 2019
Tasted with Eric Germain in Meursault, 05 November 2020. Domaine Vincent Girardin “Les Champs Lins” BP 48 21190 Meursault Tel: +33 3 80 20 81 00 http://www.vincentgirardin.com More reports for Domaine Vincent Girardin I note a small change to the… Read More
weekend stuff
After returning from France, the weather was lovely on Friday & Saturday, so after multiple chores on Friday, we chose a walk for Saturday in the beautiful Emmental – which is on our doorstep. All thoughts of confinement were bannished here in the Swiss countryside! The trees and houses,… Read More
more robots…
I previously introduced the BAKUS here. Two years later, maybe you might start seeing them in the ‘wild.’ In this case, in the vineyards of Louis Moreau in Chablis: Share this:… Read More
another week’s inquisition…
My many thanks for the vigneron(ne)s that put up with my questions this week – once-more, many covetable wines for sure, you’ll have to subscribe to hear about the bad ones 😉 Purely alphabetically, domaines: Chanzy Jean-Philippe Fichet Fontaine-Gagnard Jean-Noel Gagnard André Goichot… Read More
2018 A lockdown value summary
I couldn’t go to the producers, but some of their efforts could come to me – of course, with the vagaries of the Swiss Post Office and customs, so some stuff never made it it to Bern. The aim of these tastings was to look at the values, as I… Read More
56x 2018 Petit Chablis
Tasted blind, at the BIVB office in Chablis, 21 January 2020. As always, I find these blind tastings a great source of new names, of new producers whose wines I haven’t already explored. A number who made wines I rated highly in the 2017 vintage were profiled for… Read More
2018 Chablis – What a surprise!
Our basic starting point for surprise is the harvest in 2018; growers suggest only days before they harvested, that they thought that there would be ‘not much juice.’ If we are comparing to 2017 where some domaines pressed hard and actually didn’t get much juice, that might be fair –… Read More
Bart – 2018
Tasted in Marsannay with Pierre Bart, 03 December 2019. Domaine Bart 23 Rue Moreau 21160 Marsannay-la-Côte Tel: +33 3 80 51 49 76 More reports for Domaine Bart Pierre on 2019: “In 2019 we made about 25% less, which is pretty classic… Read More